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Слушать(AI)The Suicides Argument
Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or
No question was asked me--it could not be so!
If the life was the question, a thing sent to
And to live on be
ES; what can NO be? to die.
RE'S
Is't returned, as 'twas sent?
Is't no worse for the wear?
Think first, what you
RE!
Call to mind what you
RE!
I gave you innocence,
I gave you hope,
Gave health, and genius, and an ample scope,
Return you me guilt, lethargy, despair?
Make out the invent'ry; inspect, compare!
Then die—if die you dare!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend W
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