Quote#Children
Alas! they had been friends in youth
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Christabel (wr. 1797–1801; pub. 1816), Part II, l. 408.
English (original)
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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