As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain <br />Where native Otter sports his scanty stream, <br />Musing in torpid woe a Sister's pain, <br />The glorious prospect woke me from the dream. <br /> <br />At every step it widen'd to my sight - <br />Wood, Meadow, verdant Hill, and dreary Steep, <br />Following in quick succession of delight, - <br />Till all - at once - did my eye ravish'd sweep! <br /> <br />May this (I cried) my course through Life portray! <br />New scenes of Wisdom may each step display, <br />And Knowledge open as my days advance! <br />Till what time Death shall pour the undarken'd ray, <br />My eye shall dart thro' infinite expanse, <br />And thought suspended lie in Rapture's blissful trance.<br /><br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/life-11/
