Versos English Jonathan Swift Epigram; In Answer To The Dean's Verses On His Own Deafness [1]

English poem

Epigram; In Answer To The Dean's Verses On His Own Deafness [1]

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Listen in the reader

What though the Dean hears not the knell Of the next church's passing bell; What though the thunder from a cloud, Or that from female tongue more loud, Alarm not; At the Drapier's ear, Chink but Wood's halfpence, and he'll hear.