. Poetical and dramatic works. Founded on the author's latest ed. of 1834, with many additional pieces now first included, and with a collection of various readings . when the latter made a pilgrimage to Highgate on TWO EPITAPHS. 351 To Tot E2TH2E Tov eTTtSavoiJs Epitaphium testa-mentarium avroypacfiov. Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihili, aut vix sunt mea. SordesDo Morti: reddo csetera, Christe ! tibi.* EPITAPH. CTOP, Christian passer-by !—Stop, child of God,And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemd he.—0, hft one thought in prayer for S. T. C.;That he
. Poetical and dramatic works. Founded on the author's latest ed. of 1834, with many additional pieces now first included, and with a collection of various readings . when the latter made a pilgrimage to Highgate on TWO EPITAPHS. 351 To Tot E2TH2E Tov eTTtSavoiJs Epitaphium testa-mentarium avroypacfiov. Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihili, aut vix sunt mea. SordesDo Morti: reddo csetera, Christe ! tibi.* EPITAPH. CTOP, Christian passer-by !—Stop, child of God,And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemd he.—0, hft one thought in prayer for S. T. C.;That he who many a year with toil of breathFound death in life, may here find life in death !Mercy for praise—to be forgiven for fameHe askd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thouthe same ! gth November, 1833. August 5, 1833. When I rose to go, he said, I do notknow whether you care about poetry, but I will repeat someverses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary, and herecited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines,beginning, Born unto God in Christ——English Traits,§ I, First Visit to England.* Literary Souvenir, 1827. SUPPLEMENT VOL. II. *Z. SUPPLEMENT. MONODY ON THE DEATH OFCHATTERTON. (original version.)* [This poem has since appeared in print, much altered,whether for the better I doubt. This was, I beheve,written before the Author went to College. (Notebyj. T. C.)] M OW prompts the Muse poetic lays. And high my bosom beats with love of praise,But, Chatterton / methinks I hear thy name,For cold my fancy grows, and dead each hope ofFame. When Want and cold Neglect had chilld thy soul,Athirst for Death I see thee drain the bowl, Thy corse of many a livid hue On the bare ground I view, * This original draught of Coleridges Monody on Chat-terton appears to have been produced at Christs Hospital asa school exercise, together with the two following Poems. Itis derived from a note-book in the handwriting of the late SirJohn Taylor Coleridge, the nephew of the poe
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