| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Song: ‘Hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell’ | | By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | | HEAR, 1 sweet spirit, hear the spell, | |
| Lest a blacker charm compel! | |
| So shall the midnight breezes swell | |
| With thy deep long-lingering knell. | |
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| And at evening evermore, | 5 |
| In a Chapel on the shore, | |
| Shall the Chaunters sad and saintly, | |
| Yellow tapers burning faintly, | |
| Doleful Masses chaunt for thee, | |
| Miserere Domine! | 10 |
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| Hark! the cadence dies away | |
| On the quiet moonlight sea: | |
| The boatmen rest their oars and say, | |
| Miserere Domine! | |
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