“The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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