Social Commentaries
Sentimental
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
The rose that blushes like the morn,
Bedecks the valleys low;
And so dost thou, sweet infant corn,
My Angelina's toe.
But on the rose there grows a thorn
That breeds disastrous woe;
And so dost thou, remorseless corn,
On Angelina's toe.
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