Social Commentaries
On an Insignificant
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
No doleful faces here, no sighing--
Here rots a thing that won by dying:
'Tis Cypher lies beneath this crust--
Whom Death created into dust.
'Hier modert Nitulus, jungfräuliches Gesichts,
Der durch den Tod gewann: er wurde Staub aus Nichts.'
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Codex Note
1799
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “On an Insignificant.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/298/.
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