Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poeta - filósofo Inglês

(21 Outubro 1772 - 25 Julho 1834).

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E se dormisses,

e se, dormindo, sonhasses,

e se, no teu sonho,viajasses até ao Céu,

e lá colhesses uma estranha e bela flor,

e se, ao acordar, encontrasses essa flor na tua mão?

Ah, que farias então?

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What if you slept?

And what if, in your sleep,

you went to heaven

and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?

And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand?

Ah, what then?

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream,

and have a flower presented to him

as a pledge that his soul had really been there,

and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake

— Aye, what then?

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