← The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2, Volume 1
The Second Birth[362:1]
There are two births, the one when Light
First strikes the new-awaken'd sense—
The other when two souls unite,
And we must count our life from then.
When you lov'd me, and I lov'd you,
Then both of us were born anew.
? 1801.