When out in the
anthropomorphic attributes

we dismiss
three persons,

each with whom
we should reject idolatry.

Of all our human vices,
our original sin,

it appears to me a
being jealous

of how one of the three
talks more intelligibly,

and some feel more religiously –
the lie at the root of

their idolatry, and think of
him as the Deity:

Eternal. Omnipresent. Him.
Seems to me

if there be meaning tricked in one of these
they sometimes had our Being

and made too much
of a feeling.

[Found in a letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev. J.P. Estlin, 7th December, 1802]