Quae Nocent Docent

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #7 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Quae Nocent Docent by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Written in 1789; the title is Latin for “What injures, instructs.” The translation of the subtitle is more telling of the poem’s theme: “O! if only Jupiter would bring back my years!”

Quae Nocent Docent Annotated

&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbspO! mihi praeteritos referat si Jupiter annos!

Oh! might my ill-past hours return again!
No more, as then, should Sloth around me throw
&nbspHer soul-enslaving, leaden chain!
No more the precious time would I employ
In giddy revels, or in thoughtless joy,
A present joy producing future woe.

But o'er the midnight Lamp I'd love to pore,
I'd seek with care fair Learning's depths to sound,
&nbspAnd gather scientific Lore:
Or to mature the embryo thoughts inclin'd,
That half-conceiv'd lay struggling in my mind,
The cloisters' solitary gloom I'd round.

'Tis vain to wish, for Time has ta'en his flight—
For follies past be ceas'd the fruitless tears:
&nbspLet follies past to future care incite.
Averse maturer judgements to obey
Youth owns, with pleasure owns, the Passions' sway,
But sage Experience only comes with years.

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