Social Commentaries
Occasioned by the Last
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
A JOKE (cries Jack) without a sting--
Post obitum can no man sing.
And true, if Jack don't mend his manners
And quit the atheistic banners,
Post obitum will Jack run foul
Of such folks as can only howl.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Occasioned by the Last.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/317/.
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