“The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.”

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Frost at Midnight http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Frost_at_Midnight.html", l. 1 (1798)

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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