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Epigram: So Mr. Baker heart did pluck

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)

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So Mr. Baker heart did pluck--
And did a-courting go!
And Mr. Baker is a buck;
For why? he needs the doe.

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