The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 8/An Epigram Occasioned By the Inscription For Swift's Monument

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An Inscription intended for a Compartment in Dr. Swift's Monument

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 8
(1766)
by Anonymous, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

An Epigram occasioned by the above Inscription

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1568305The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 8
— An Epigram occasioned by the above Inscription1766Anonymous

AN EPIGRAM.

OCCASIONED BY THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION.

WHICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend;
And each asserts her poet, patriot, friend:
Her mitre jealous Britain may deny;
That loss Ierne's laurel shall supply:
Through life's low vale, she, grateful, gave him bread;
Her vocal stones shall vindicate him dead.

1766.

W.B. J.N.