• 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: 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?
    1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.