History & Politics
Ninety-Eight
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
History & Politics
O would the Baptist come again
And preach aloud with might and main
Repentance to our viperous race!
But should this miracle take place,
I hope, ere Irish ground he treads,
He'll lay in a good stock of heads!
'Nicht recht! nicht recht! würd' immer schrein
Johannes, sollt' er wieder sein.
Doch käm er, riet' ich, dass er dächte,
Wie viel er Köpf' in Vorrat brächte.'
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Codex Note
Adapted by Coleridge from Logau's Sinngedicht
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