Since I’m in Germany I thought I’d have a look around for a poem related to the area I’m staying in at the moment. I found this, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I have the feeling he didn’t particularly enjoy his visit to the fine city of Cologne…
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?
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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