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EPITAPH ON HIMSELF by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

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First Line: STOP, CHRISTIAN PASSER-BY! STOP, CHILD OF GOD
Last Line: HE ASK'D, AND HOPED, THROUGH CHRIST, DO THOU THE SAME!
Subject(s): COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834); EPITAPHS; POETRY & POETS;
Stop, Christian passer-by! -- Stop, child of God,
And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he.
O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.;
That he who many a year with toil of breath
Found death in life, may here find life in death!
Mercy for praise -- to be forgiven for fame
He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ, Do thou the same!




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