On A Report Of A Minister's Death Written In Germany

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Title:     On A Report Of A Minister's Death Written In Germany
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Last Monday all the Papers said
That Mr. ---- was dead;
Why, then, what said the City?
The tenth part sadly shook their head,
And shaking sigh'd and sighing said,
'Pity, indeed, 'tis pity!'

But when the said report was found
A rumour wholly without ground,
Why, then, what said the city?
The other _nine_ parts shook their head,
Repeating what the tenth had said,
'Pity, indeed, 'tis pity!'

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: On A Report Of A Minister's Death Written In Germany

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