Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON IMITATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE



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First Line: All are not born to soar - and ah! How few
Last Line: Yet all like fox can game -- like pitt can drink.


ALL are not born to soar -- and ah! how few
In tracks where Wisdom leads their paths pursue!
Contagious when to wit or wealth allied,
Folly and Vice diffuse their venom wide.
On Folly every fool his talent tries;
It asks some toil to imitate the wise;
Tho' few like Fox can speak -- like Pitt can think --
Yet all like Fox can game -- like Pitt can drink.





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