Death & Dying
Epitaph on Major Dieman
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Death & Dying
Know thou who walks't by, Man! that wrapp'd up in lead, man,
What once was a Dieman, now lies here a dead man.
Alive a proud MAJOR! but ah me! of our poor all,
The soul having gone, he is now merely Corporal.
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Codex Note
? 1800
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epitaph on Major Dieman.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/318/.
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