Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, p.25, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, p.25, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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