Coleridge And Wordsworth

A pair, like rhyming couplets, Two poets roamed the fells Sam C. saw magic visions Whilst Will saw daffodils Wordsworth ate porridge twice a day His rhymes were regular Coleridge took noxious substances Imported from afar No mouse droppings in William's tea His household was pristine He read the Times, then wallpapered His walls with it. How mean! He loved to skate upon the lake While contemplating odes And cursed the carts that trundled by Rude traffic on the roads But Coleridge taking laudanum Would not have turned a hair Had the Old Man of Coniston Walked down his bedroom stair! And after Wordsworth moved away De Quincey took the house More opium, more laudanum, No oats for man nor mouse!