"Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love."
These lines are also Coleridge's (_Poems_, &c., p. 30., edit. 1852). He
afterwards added the following note on this passage:
"I utterly recant the sentiment contained in the lines--
Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love
Aught to _implore_ were impotence of mind;
it being written in Scripture, '_Ask_, and it shall be given you!' and
my human reason being, moreover, convinced of the propriety of offering
_petitions_, as well as thanksgivings, to Deity.--S. T. C., 1797."