The Mind
Fragment: Each crime that once estranges from the virtues
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
Each crime that once estranges from the virtues
Doth make the memory of their features daily
More dim and vague, till each coarse counterfeit
Can have the passport to our confidence
Sign'd by ourselves. And fitly are they punish'd
Who prize and seek the honest man but as
A safer lock to guard dishonest treasures.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: Each crime that once estranges from the virtues.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/489/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: Each crime that once estranges from the virtues.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/489/.
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