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Swift: A Gentle Echo
Is there no way to moderate her anger?
Hang her.
Thanks, gentle Echo! right thy answers tell
What woman is and how to guard her well.
Guard her well.
JONATHAN SWIFT
LINES ON SWIFT'S ANCESTORS
'Swift put up a plain monument to his grandfather, and also
presented a cup to the church of Goodrich, or Gotheridge (Herefordshire).
He sent a pencilled elevation of the monument (a
simple tablet) to Mrs Howard, who returned it with the following
lines inscribed on the drawing by Pope.'—Scott's Life ofSzvift.
Jonathan Swift
Had the gift,
By fatherige, motherige,
And by brotherige,
To come from Gotherige,
But now is spoil'd clean
And an Irish dean:
In this church he has put
A stone of two foot,
With a cup and a can, sir,
In respect to his grandsire;
So, Ireland, change thy tone,
And cry, O hone! O hone!
For England hath its own.
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ALEXANDER POPE