Death & Dying
Epigraph for Dean Swift's Monument
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Death & Dying
Say to the Drapier's vast unbounded fame,
What added honours can the sculptor give?
None—'tis a sanction from the Drapier's name,
Must bid the sculptor and his marble live.
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Codex Note
Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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