Translation:Epitaph of Jonathan Swift
Original Latin edit
Hic depositum est Corpus
Ionathan Swift S.T.D.
Hujus Ecclesiæ Cathedralis
Decani
Ubi sæva Indignatio
Ulterius
Cor lacerare nequit.
Abi Viator
Et imitare, si poteris,
Strenuum pro virili
English wiki translation edit
- Here is placed the body
- Of Jonathan Swift, STD (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
- Dean of this cathedral church
- Where savage indignation
- Can no longer tear his heart
- Go forth, traveller
- And imitate, if you can,
- a valiant champion
- of manly freedom.
See also edit
Swift's Epitaph, the poem by William Butler Yeats.