The Mind
Imitated from Aristophanes
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
Great goddesses are they to lazy folks,
Who pour down on us gifts of fluent speech,
Sense most sententious, wonderful fine effect,
And how to talk about it and about it,
Thoughts brisk as bees, and pathos soft and thawy.
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Imitated by Coleridge from Aristophanes. 1817
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