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the lover’s offering, 
tj a f n i Though the cottage was a 
ncar Br ‘ St 0 '- ona i 8 toI of little more than 
p°°r one, conaiet'fg he paid f5 
lorn a , and his wife made it pretty 
per “’'.X’h’Xf the funds supplied by 
Stood Mr Cottle, the Bristol ho* 
Lller Coleridge decorated this littlo 
cottage with all the graces that imagm - 
“on h fancy could throw around it- « 
is alluded to in many of his poems. 
« Low « «»r Pretty cot I »” aicar 
Peep’d at the chamber window. 
Thrlea’sfeint murmuu“inthJopen air 
The valley of seclusion! 
But his loved young wife was not for¬ 
gotten: for again he sings : 
u M y pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclin’d 
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it 
(Meet emblems they of innocence and love!) 
