Social Commentaries
On an Old Gate Erected in Chiswick Gardens
From Miscellanies
Social Commentaries
O gate, how cam'st thou here?
Gate. I was brought from Chelsea last year,
Batter'd with wind and weather.
Inigo Jones put me together;
Sir Hans Sloane
Let me alone:
Burlington brought me hither.
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MLA
Pope, Alexander. “On an Old Gate Erected in Chiswick Gardens.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/130/.
Chicago
Pope, Alexander. “On an Old Gate Erected in Chiswick Gardens.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/130/.
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