Social Commentaries
Napoleon's Snuff-box
From Works, ed. Coleridge, vol. VII (1904)
Social Commentaries
LADY, accept the box a hero wore,
In spite of all this elegiac stuff:
Let not seven stanzas written by a bore,
Prevent your Ladyship from taking snuff!
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Codex Note
1821. First published, Conversations of Lord Byron, 1824, p. 235.
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