Death & Dying
Epigram: Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Death & Dying
Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick,
And taught at length his memory the same trick.
Believing thus what he so oft repeats,
He's brought the thing to such a pass, poor youth,
That now himself and no one else he cheats,
Save when unluckily he tells the truth.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/327/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Epigram: Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/327/.
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