Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO DR. SWIFT ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER 1721, by ESTHER JOHNSON


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TO DR. SWIFT ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER 1721, by                    
First Line: St. Patrick's dean, your country's pride
Last Line: While stella holds her station still.
Subject(s): Love; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)


St. Patrick's Dean, your country's pride,
My early and my only guide,
You taught how I might youth prolong,
By knowing what was right and wrong;
How from my heart to bring supplies
Of lustre to my fading eyes;
How soon a beauteous mind repairs
The loss of changed or falling hairs;
How wit and virtue from within
Send out a smoothness o'er the skin:
Your lectures could my fancy fix,
And I can please at thirty-six.
The sight of Chloe at fifteen,
Coquetting, gives me not the spleen;
The idol now of every fool
Till time shall make their passions cool;
Then tumbling down Time's steepy hill,
While Stella holds her station still.





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