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Epigrams on Windows: Another, at Holyhead

by Jonathan Swift 1667–1745

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O Neptune! Neptune! must I still
Be here detain'd against my will?
Is this your justice, when I'm come
Above two hundred miles from home;
O'er mountains steep, o'er dusty plains,
Half choked with dust, half drown'd with rains,
Only your godship to implore,
To let me kiss your other shore?
A boon so small! but I may weep,
While you're like Baal, fast asleep.

MLA

Swift, Jonathan. “Epigrams on Windows: Another, at Holyhead.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/120/.

Chicago

Swift, Jonathan. “Epigrams on Windows: Another, at Holyhead.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swift/120/.

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