Epitaph - Samuel T. Coleridge

Stop, Christian passer-by! - Stop, child of God,
And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he. -
O, lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C.;
That he who many a year with toil of breath
Found death in life, may here find life in death!
Mercy for praise - to be forgiven for fame
He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ.
Do thou the same!

9th November 1833

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England 21 October 1772 – Highgate, England, 25 July 1834)