“What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The Complete Poems

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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