brings the "turn"; in the crisis of his sufferings comes the consciousness of fellowship with other creatures and repentance for his cruelty.

Parts V.and VI.

relate his penance begun, and his return by supernatural agencies to the world of human fellowship; and Part VII.

brings us back to the opening scene, closing the whole with a moral.

The moral is so plainly set forth that one wonders how Mrs.Barbauld could ever have complained, as Coleridge tells us she did, that the poem "had no moral." His reply is worth recording: "I told her that in my opinion the poem had too much; and that the only, or chief fault, if I might say so, was the obtrusion of the moral sentiment so openly on the reader as a principle or cause of action in a work of such pure imagination.