Epigram: Say What You Will, Ingenious Youth!

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Title:     Epigram: Say What You Will, Ingenious Youth!
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Say what you will, Ingenious Youth!
You'll find me neither Dupe nor Dunce:
Once you deceived me--only once,
'Twas then when you told me the Truth.

1799. First published from an MS. in 1893. Adapted from Lessing's _Sinngedicht_ No. 45. _An einen Lügner._ 'Du magst so oft, so fein, als dir nur möglich, lügen.'

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Epigram: Say What You Will, Ingenious Youth!

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