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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

including Poems and Versions of Poems now Published for the First Time: Edited with Textual and Bibliographical Notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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30 ON A VOLUNTEER SINGER

Swans sing before they die—'twere no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.