The Mind
Fragment: Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse,
Sit meum, amice, precor: quia certe sum mage pauper.
'Tis mine and it is likewise yours;
But and if this will not do,
Let it be mine, because that I
Am the poorer of the Two!
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Codex Note
In the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet--
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/437/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/437/.
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