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    V or the place is sweet to the memories of my soul ; yea , sweet as [ he breath of the fragrant-flowered Dothan , where Jacob our irefather sleeps with his children . ' Then the people all set up a great shout , and clapped their nands . jis for a fine show ; and the soldiers took Akiba , and led

    iiim out to suffer cieatja ^ according to his sentence , which had been oassed upon him before he was brought into the court . And the magi and the soothsayers made a great fire , and rejoiced exceedingly . And they danced around the fire , beating upon drums of brass , and the priests cursed Akiba while he suffered his tortures . * And Zahoran gave Leah in marriage to a great captain of the

    hosts of Egypt ; but while her wedding garments were being made , she sank downward towards the earth , even as the gold threads

    tvere woven into the texture ^ and the precious stones sewed thereon . And on the first day of the twelfth month , the month Adar , when her handmaids brought them into her chamber , she turned aside her head and passed away , sighing forth the name of Akiba . So these two lovers slept beneath the walls of Jerusalem . For the ashes of Akiba were brought many years afterwards by a poor herdsman who had known Akiba in the vale ; and he placed them beside the ashes of Leah his wife . And though their dust hath

    long since been dispersed on the four great winds , and the quarters of the teeming world wot not of it , the memory of this true passion remains , and the moral beauty thereof .

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    Letters of the late S . T . Coleridge . 653

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    [ The following characteristic letters were addressed to Mr . B . Flower , then Editor Df the Cambridge Intelligencer . As fragments , however slight , of the mind and history of u philosophical poet , they have their value , and will doubtless interest our readers . The second of them is without date , hut was written towards the close of toe year 1796 . ]

    I . Dear Sir , April 1 , 1796 . ^ transmitted you by Mr . B , a copy of my * Conciones ad Popuurn , ' and an address against the Bills . I have taken the liberty of inclosing 1 ten of each , carriage paid , which you may perhaps have an opportunity of disposing of for rne—if not , give them away . The one 8 an eighteen-penny affair—the other 9 d » I have likewise enclosed the uimbera that have been hitherto published of the ' Watchman , '—some ) f the Poetry may perhaps be serviceable to you in your paper . That tonnet on the rejection of Mr . Wilberforce ' s Bill in your Chronicle the veek before last , was written by Southey , author of Joan of Arc / a fear and a half ago , and sent to me per letter—how it appeared with he late signature , let the Plagiarist answer * * * . Thave sent a copy > f my poems ; [ there is a preface to be added , and a sheet of additional

    It is Baid that Akiba was torn to pieces with iron rasps or combs . These inhuman ° rtures were by no means uncommon at thin period *

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    No . 93 . 3 A

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    LETTERS OF THE LATE S . T . COLERIDGE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/49/