Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no <br />No question was asked me--it could not be so ! <br />If the life was the question, a thing sent to try <br />And to live on be YES; what can NO be ? to die. <br /> <br /> NATURE'S ANSWER <br /> <br />Is't returned, as 'twas sent ? Is't no worse for the wear ? <br />Think first, what you ARE ! Call to mind what you WERE ! <br />I gave you innocence, I gave you hope, <br />Gave health, and genius, and an ample scope, <br />Return you me guilt, lethargy, despair ? <br />Make out the invent'ry ; inspect, compare ! <br />Then die--if die you dare !<br /><br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/suicide-s-argument-the/
