Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. I. On Leaving School By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
(Written at Eighteen)
AREWELL, 1 parental scenes! a sad farewell! To you my grateful heart still fondly clings, Though fluttering round on Fancy’s burnished wings, Her tale of future joy Hope loves to tell. Adieu, adieu! ye much-loved cloisters pale! 5 Ah! would those happy days return again, When ’neath your arches, free from every stain, I heard of guilt, and wondered at the tale! Dear haunts! where oft my simple lays I sang, Listening meanwhile the echoing of my feet: 10 Lingering I quit you with as great a pang As when, erewhile, my weeping childhood, torn By early sorrow from my native seat, Mingled its tears with hers, my widowed parent lorn.
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