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And how then was the Devil drest? Oh! he was in his Sunday’s best: His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where the tail came through. Over the hill and over the dale, And he went over the plain, And backward and forward he swished his long tail, As a gentleman swishes his cane.
And how then was the Devil drest? Oh! he was in his Sunday’s best: His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where the tail came through. Over the hill and over the dale, And he went over the plain, And backward and forward he swished his long tail, As a gentleman swishes his cane.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 336 · printed citation: S. T. Coleridge (The Devil’s Thoughts). · compiler notes excluded
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