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Poem by Jonathan Swift


Answered Extempore by Dr. Swift


We both are mortal; but thou, frailer creature,
May'st die, like me, by chance, but not by nature. 



Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift's other poems:
  1. Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson’s, in the North of Ireland
  2. Drapier’s Hill
  3. At Holyhead
  4. Verses on Blenheim
  5. Mrs Frances Haris's Petition


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