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The works of Lord Byron

A new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and R. E. Prothero

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Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here,
To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear?
Though themes of innocence amuse him best,
Yet still Obscurity's a welcome guest.
If Inspiration should her aid refuse
To him who takes a Pixy for a muse,

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Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass
The bard who soars to elegize an ass:
So well the subject suits his noble mind,
He brays, the Laureate of the long-eared kind.
 

“He has not published for some years.”—British Bards.

Coleridge's Poems, p. 11, “Songs of the Pixies,” i.e. Devonshire Fairies; p. 42, we have “Lines to a Young Lady;” and, p. 52, “Lines to a Young Ass.”