The Mind
Fragment: The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth--
A little mould fills up most eloquent mouths,
And a square stone with a few pious texts
Cut neatly on it, keeps the mould down tight.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/424/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/424/.
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