A House not Built with Hands

Tagged With: - YOUTH AND AGE

Coleridge reflects on the changes age has brought to his body, saying, “When I was young?—Ah, woful When! / Ah! for the change ’twixt Now and Then! / This breathing house not built with hands,” which is an obvious allusion to 2 CORINTHIANS 5 : 1, where the Apostle Paul assures the believers at Corinth…