If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream . . .

"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye! and what then?"

. . . Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . . "Anima Poetæ: From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (1895) . . . ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge . . . 282 . . .