Social Commentaries
Epigram: Say what you will, Ingenious Youth
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Say what you will, Ingenious Youth!
You'll find me neither Dupe nor Dunce:
Once you deceived me--only once,
'Twas then when you told me the Truth.
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Codex Note
1799
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Say what you will, Ingenious Youth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/296/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Say what you will, Ingenious Youth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/296/.
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