Social Commentaries
Rufa
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Thy lap-dog, Rufa, is a dainty beast,
It don't surprise me in the least
To see thee lick so dainty clean a beast.
But that so dainty clean a beast licks thee,
Yes--that surprises me.
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Codex Note
Adapted by Coleridge from Lessing's Sinngedicht
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