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PARALLEL PASSAGES: COLERIDGE, HOOKER, BUTLER.
I do not remember to have seen the following parallels pointed out.
Coleridge. The Nightingale. A conversation poem:
"The nightingale—
'Most musical, most melancholy' bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
In nature there is nothing melancholy.
But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced