History & Politics
A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
History & Politics
Three truths should make thee often think and pause;
The first is, that thou govern'st over men;
The second, that thy power is from the laws;
And this the third, that thou must die!--and then?--
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Codex Note
From an Old Tragedy, Viz. Agatha to King Archelaus
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/334/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/334/.
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