Epitaph (Coleridge)

, Christian Passer-by!---Stop, Child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he.--- O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death! Mercy for praise---to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same! 9th November, 1833