Names

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Title:     Names
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

[FROM LESSING]

I ask'd my fair one happy day,
What I should call her in my lay;
By what sweet name from Rome or Greece;
Lalage, Nesera, Chloris,
Sappho, Lesbia, or Doris,
Arethusa or Lucrece.

"Ah!" replied my gentle fair,
"Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou whatever suits the line;
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage or Doris,
Only, only call me Thine."

_Morning Post_, August 27,1799.

-THE END-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Names

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