RPO -- Jonathan Swift : On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet

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RPO -- Jonathan Swift : On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet

1The Thresher Duck, could o'er the Q {-}{-}{-}{-}{-}{-} prevail,

2The Proverb says; No Fence against a Flayl.

3From threshing Corn, he turns to thresh his Brains;

4For which Her M{-}{-}{-}{-}{-}{-}y allows him Grains.

5Though 'tis confess't, that those who ever saw

6His Poems, think them all not worth a Straw.

7Thrice happy Duck, employ'd in threshing Stubble!

8Thy Toil is lessen'd, and thy Profits double.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Jonathan Swift, Poems on Several Occasions (Dublin: George Faulkner, 1737): 304. B-10 7549 Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto).
First publication date: 1737
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2.0.
Recent editing: 4:2002/5/29

Composition date: 1730
Form: Heroic Couplets

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