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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 2. DEAN SWIFT, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poet's Biography
First Line: Then to swift, and, though he brag / that we're nothing but
Last Line: Reading, gulliver.
Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
First Line: Then to swift, and, though he brag / that we're nothing but
Last Line: Reading, gulliver.
Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
THEN to Swift, and, though he brag
that we're nothing but
knaves writ large in Brobdignag,
small in Lilliput,
tell him all that he has proved
is that, if we were,
he'd not written, nor we loved
reading, Gulliver.
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