Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #3 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Written in 1787 as an exercise while Coleridge was a student at Christ’s Hospital. The translation of the title is: “Nothing is worse than the single life.” This is an inversion of a line from Horace, nil ait esse prius, melius nil caelibe vita which means “Nothing is finer or better than a single l...

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I
What pleasures shall he ever find?
What joys shall ever glad his heart?
Or who shall heal his wounded mind,
If tortur'd by Misfortune's smart?
Who Hymeneal bliss will never prove,
That more than friendship, friendship mix'd with love.

II
Then without child or tender wife,
To drive away each care, each sigh,
Lonely he treads the paths of life
A stranger to Affection's tye:
And when from Death he meets his final doom
No mourning wife with tears of love shall wet his tomb.

III
Tho' Fortune, Riches, Honours, Pow'r,
Had giv'n with every other toy,
Those gilded trifles of the hour,
Those painted nothings sure to cloy:
He dies forgot, his name no son shall bear
To shew the man so blest once breath'd the vital air.

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