Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Youth and Age.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, Samuel Taylor Coleridge entry; Youth and Age.; Wording and named source checked in Bartlett’s published reference; the original work is identified by title and locator. Literary excerpts, not claims of personal spoken testimony.
- Youth and Age.
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