Ease my passion by your art;
And in pity to my pain,
Mend the hole that’s in my heart.
On a Certain Poet.
Thy verses are eternal, O my friend!
For he who reads them, reads them to no end.
A Distich, written under the sign of the King’s Head and Bell in Dublin, at the host’s request.
BY DEAN SWIFT.
May the king live long;
Dong, ding, ding, dong.