Social Commentaries
On a Slanderer
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
From yonder tomb of recent date,
There comes a strange mephitic blast.
Here lies--Ha! Backbite, you at last--
'Tis he indeed: and sure as fate,
They buried him in overhaste--
Into the earth he has been cast,
And in this grave,
Before the man had breathed his last.
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Codex Note
1799
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “On a Slanderer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/300/.
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