Social Commentaries
To a Virtuous Oeconomist
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
You're careful o'er your wealth 'tis true:
Yet so that of your plenteous store
The needy takes and blesses you,
For you hate Poverty, but not the Poor.
'Du liebst zwar Geld und Gut, doch so dass dein Erbarmen
Der Arme fühlt.'
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Codex Note
Adapted by Coleridge from Wernicke's Epigrams
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