hiB friend and patron, Mr. Gillman, Surgeon of Higfagate GroTe. Cole-
ridge died on the 25th of July, 1834, having previously written his own
oharacteristic epitaph, aa follows :

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" Stop, Christian passer-by ! stop, child of God !
And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod.
A poet lies, or that which once seemed he —
Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S. T. C. !
That he who, many a year, with toil of breath,
Foimd death in life, may here find life in death ;
Mercy for praise — ^to be forgiven for &me.
