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Poem by Jonathan Swift


On an Upright Judge


In church your grandsire cut his throat;
To do the job too long he tarried:
He should have had my hearty vote
To cut his throat before he married.



Jonathan Swift


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


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