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When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt (fragment)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt-- A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing-- And wheeling round and round in sportive coil Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of Toil--

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