Or take this study in autumn foliage. The poet forgets that the scene is laid on the coast of Granada, and paints instead a Somersetshire coomb when autumn had begun to lay "a fiery finger on the leaves " :

The hanging woods, that touch'd by autumn seem'd
As they were blossoming hues of fire and gold,

The hanging woods, most lovely in decay.

Act v. i. 39-41.

Two or three months before these last Acts of Osorio were written, in the lines entitled This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, which may be regarded as the prelude to a fuller inspiration, he had given proof both of the will and the power to come to close quarters with Nature. Debarred from accompanying his friends the Wordsworths and Charles Lamb in their ramble "on springy heath along the hill-top ledge," he is fain to content himself with the humbler beauties of "the little lime-tree bower," Tom Poole's garden :

Pale beneath the blaze

Hung the transparent foliage; and I watched
Some broad and sunny leaf, and loved to see
The shadow of the leaf and stem above,

Dappling its sunshine.

If this attitude of heart and soul toward Nature had been quickened and stimulated by Wordsworth, it was Wordsworth who diverted Coleridge from the seen to the unseen, from "this fair earth and its divinities" to the "goings on" of those "invisible natures" which live and move behind the veil of the senses. Following metaphorically and following literally in Wordsworth's

THE GROVE, HIGHGATE

Showing the house in which Coleridge lived during the latter years of his life, and in which he died.