An extract from the long poem on my own poetical education. It 
      was first published by Coleridge in his "Friend," which is the 
      reason of its having had a place in every edition of my poems 
      since.
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This and the Extract [cf. "Influence of Natural Objects"] and 
      the first Piece of this Class, are from the unpublished Poem of 
      which some account is given in the Preface to the EXCURSION.