Nature
On My Joyful Departure
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Nature
As I am a Rhymer,
And now at least a merry one,
Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer
And the church of St. Geryon
Are the two things alone
That deserve to be known
In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.
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Codex Note
From the Same City. 1828
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