Item 11 - Poem, Dean Swift's last Farewell

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O./11a.5/11

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Poem, Dean Swift's last Farewell

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  • [1730s?] (Creation)

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1 sheet.

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Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745), writer and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
(1667–1745)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Gift of Henry Southey Howard (Trinity 1899-1902), June 1938.

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Title at head of poem. First lines: 'The time is not remote, when I/ Must by the course of nature, die...' A shortened version of Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

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      O.11a.5/11

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