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ON HIS OWN DEAFNESS (1) by JONATHAN SWIFT

First Line: DEAF, GIDDY, HELPLESS, LEFT ALONE %TO ALL MY FRIENDS A BURTHEN GROWN
Last Line: NO MORE COULD REACH ME THAN HER SILENCE
Subject(s): DEAFNESS;

Poem Sources:

BEFORE THE ROMANTICS; AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT.
  GRIGSON, GEOFFREY (ED.)
  (1946)
 
JONATHAN SWIFT: THE COMPLETE POEMS. PAT ROGERS (ED.)
  SWIFT, JONATHAN
  (1983)
 



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