Epitaph On Major Dieman

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Title:     Epitaph On Major Dieman
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Know thou who walks't by, Man! that wrapp'd up in lead, man,
What once was a Dieman, now lies here a dead man.
Alive a proud MAJOR! but ah me! of our poor all,
The soul having gone, he is now merely Corporal.

? 1800. Now first published from MS.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Epitaph On Major Dieman

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