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DAYS LIKE THESE 27 september 1802

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020927
Author:Ian Irvine

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, in the Lake District, writes in his journal: "The river is full, and Lodore [a waterfall] is full, and silver-fillets come out of clouds and glitter in every ravine of all the mountains; and the hail lies like snow, upon their tops, and the impetuous gusts from Borrowdale snatch the water up high, and continually at the bottom of the lake it is not distinguishable from snow slanting before the wind - and under this seeming snow-drift, the sunshine gleams, and over the nether half of the Lake it is bright and dazzles, a cauldron of melted silver boiling! It is in ...

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