Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Rave Review

In Kohln, a town of monks and bones,
And pavements fang'd with murderous stones
And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches;
I counted two and seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks!
Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me, Nymphs, what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1814)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow. interesting poem from Coleridge. I wonder what Koln was like back in 1814?

we gotta hook up in Amsterdam, for the trip to Nordrhein Westfalen