Grant Me A Patron, Gracious Heaven! Whene'er

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Title:     Grant Me A Patron, Gracious Heaven! Whene'er
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er
My unwash'd follies call for Penance drear:
But when more hideous guilt this heart infests
Instead of fiery coals upon my Pate,
O let a _titled_ Patron be my Fate;--
That fierce Compendium of Ægyptian Pests!
Right reverend Dean, right honourable Squire,
Lord, Marquis, Earl, Duke, Prince,--or if aught higher,
However proudly nicknamed, he shall be
Anathema Maránatha to me!

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Grant Me A Patron, Gracious Heaven! Whene'er

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