How, then, was the Devil dressed?Oh! he was in his Sunday's best;His coat was red, and his breeches were blue,And there was a hole where his tail came through.
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Robert Southey was a 18th-century English romantic poet. Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Read more on Wikipedia →