Social Commentaries
Hippona
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Hippona lets no silly flush
Disturb her cheek, nought makes her blush.
Whate'er obscenities you say,
She nods and titters frank and gay.
Oh Shame, awake one honest flush
For this,--that nothing makes her blush.
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Codex Note
Adapted by Coleridge from Lessing's Sinngedicht
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