Epitaph On A Mercenary Miser

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Title:     Epitaph On A Mercenary Miser
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

A poor benighted Pedlar knock'd
One night at SELL-ALL'S door,
The same who saved old SELL-ALL'S life--
'Twas but the year before!
And Sell-all rose and let him in,
Not utterly unwilling,
But first he bargain'd with the man,
And took his only shilling!
That night he dreamt he'd given away his pelf,
Walk'd in his sleep, and sleeping hung himself!
And now his soul and body rest below;
And here they say his punishment and fate is
To lie awake and every hour to know
How many people read his tombstone GRATIS.

First published in _Morning Post_, Oct. 9, 1802.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Epitaph On A Mercenary Miser

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