Ps. VIII.

Name: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces - Ps. VIII.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

V. 2. Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

To the dispensations of the twilight dawn, to the first messengers of the redeeming word, the yet lisping utterers of light and life, a strength and power were given BECAUSE OF THE ENEMIES, greater and of more immediate influence, than to the seers and proclaimers of a clearer day: even as the first reappearing crescent of the eclipsed moon shines for men with a keener brilliance than the following larger segments, previously to its total emersion.

Ib. v. 5.

Thou madest him lower than the angels, to crown him with glory and worship.

Power + idea = angel. Idea—power = man, or Prometheus.

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Chicago: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Ps. VIII.," Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces, trans. Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853- in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces Original Sources, accessed July 15, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KSFPF5XEWY6USTY.

MLA: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Ps. VIII." Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces, translted by Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853-, in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces, Original Sources. 15 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KSFPF5XEWY6USTY.

Harvard: Coleridge, ST, 'Ps. VIII.' in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces, trans. . cited in , Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces. Original Sources, retrieved 15 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KSFPF5XEWY6USTY.