Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongue… - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets.

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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

And life is thorny; and youth is vain

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William Wordsworth Lord Byron John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Tennyson

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