To My Candle - The Farewell Epigram

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Title:     To My Candle - The Farewell Epigram
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Good Candle, thou that with thy brother, Fire,
Art my best friend and comforter at night,
Just snuff'd, thou look'st as if thou didst desire
That I on thee an epigram should write.

Dear Candle, burnt down to a finger-joint,
Thy own flame is an epigram of sight;
'Tis _short_, and _pointed_, and _all over_ light,
Yet gives _most_ light and burns the keenest at the point.

Valete et Plaudite.

First published in _Morning Post_, Oct. 11, 1802.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: To My Candle - The Farewell Epigram

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