“Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet moon.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, book Frost at Midnight

"Frost at Midnight", l. 72 (1798)

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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