trees appear but one, and form 100 arches round the field; in the centre of which I have erected a mount, and placed a marble column on its proper pedestal, with all the decorations of the order; on the summit of which I have placed a Pegasus, just seeming to take flight to the Heavens; and, on the die of the pedestal I have engraved the following inscription, written by an ingenious friend:
IN MEMORIAM IONATHAN SWIFT, S. T. P., VIRI SINE PARI.
AONIDVM FONTES APERIS, DIVINE POETA, ARTE NOVA: ÆTHEREAS PROPRIIS, VT PEGASVS, ALIS SCANDE DOMOS: ÆTERNVM ADDET TVA FAMA COLVMNÆ HVIC MEMORI DECVS. HIC, TANTI QVAM POSSVMVS VMBRAM NOMINIS IN MENTEM, SACRO REVOCARE QVOTANNIS LVDORVM RITV IVVAT; HIC TIBI PARVVS HONORVM OFFERTVR CVMVLVS: LAVDVM QVO FINE TVARVM COPIA CLAVDATVR QVI QVÆRIT, GENTIS IERNÆ PECTORA SCRVTETVR, LATVMQVE INTERROGET ORBEM.
MDCCL.
I have also appointed a small fund for annual premiums to be distributed in the celebration of games at the monument yearly. The ceremony is to last three days, beginning the first of May, yearly. On this day, young maids and men in the neighbourhood are to assemble in the hippodrome, with their garlands and chaplets of flowers, and to dance round the monument, singing the praises of this ingenious patriot, and strewing with flowers all the place: after which, they are to dance for a prize; the best dancer among the maids is to be presented with a cap and ribbands; and, after the dance, the young men are to run for a hat and gloves.
