“True, thy fault is great,
But we are many that will plead for thee”

—  Hartley Coleridge

Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Context: True, thy fault is great,
But we are many that will plead for thee;
We and our sisters, dwellers in the streams
That murmur blithely to the joyous mood,
And dolefully to sadness. Not a nook
In darkest woods but some of us are there,
To watch the flowers, that else would die unseen.

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