A Hint To Premiers And First Consuls

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Title:     A Hint To Premiers And First Consuls
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

FROM AN OLD TRAGEDY, VIZ. AGATHA TO KING ARCHELAUS

Three truths should make thee often think and pause;
The first is, that thou govern'st over men;
The second, that thy power is from the laws;
And this the third, that thou must die!--and then?--

First published in _Morning Post_, Sept. 27, 1802. Included in _Essays, &c._, iii. 992. First collected _P. and D. W._, 1877, ii. 162.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Hint To Premiers And First Consuls

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