This selection from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, “The Eolian Harp”, begins at line forty-nine, includes sixteen lines of verse, and is the concluding stanza of the poem, at line 64. The stanza begins with a reference to Sara, the speaker’s love. The speaker praises the strength she has in her faith and compares her faith to his own, which he finds to be lacking. “Nor such thoughts / Dim and unhallowed dost thou not reject, / And biddest me walk humbly with my God” (line 50-52). Sara scolds the speaker for being “spiritually unredeemed”, as the footnote states. The speaker is thankful that Sara scolded him for the “shapings of his unregenerate mind” (55). The speaker is thinking about God and trying to have faith, but perhaps not in a serious
