1745, ISBN: 9780217287777

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING A BIRTHDAY SONG. 1745. 1 O form a just and finish'd piece, Take twenty gods of Rome-or Greece, Whose godships are in chief request, And fit your present subject best: And, should it be your hero's case, To have both male and female race, Your business must be to provide A score of goddesses beside. Some call their monarchs sons of Saturn, For which they bring a modern pattern Because they might have heard of one, Who often long'd to eat his son: But this, I think, will not go down, For here the father kept his crown. Why, then, appoint him son of Jove, Who met his mother in a grove: To this we freely shall consent, Well knowing what the poets meant And in their sense, 'twixt me and you, It may be literally true. Next, as the laws of verse require, He must be greater than his sire For Jove, as every schoolboy knows, Was able Saturn to depose And sure no Christian poet breathing Would be more scrupulous than a Heathen ! Or, if to blasphemy it tends, That's but a trifle among friends. t Your hero now another Mars is, Makes mighty armies turn their a?s. Behold his glittering faulchion mow Whole squadrons at a single blow While Victory, with wings outspread, Flies, like an eagle, o'er his head j His milkwhite steed upon its haunches, Or pawing into dead men's paunches: As Overton has drawn his sire, Still seen o'er many an alehouse fire. Then from his arms hoarse thunder rolls, As loud as fifty mustard bowls: For thunder still his arm supplies, And lightning always in his eyes. They both are cheap enough in conscience, And serve to echo rattling nonsense. The rumbling words march fierce along, Made trebly dreadful in your song. Sweet poet, hir'd for birthday rhymes, To sing of wars, choose peaceful times. What though, for fifteen y...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 9780217287777

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D Vol. 8 With Notes Historical and Critical Author :Jonathan Swift 9780217287777 0217287778

ISBN: 0217287778

ISBN: 0217287778