Pope of the Day

Lines on Swift's Ancestors
Alexander Pope

Jonathan Swift
Had the gift,
By fatherige, motherige,
And by brotherige
To come from Gotherige,
But now is spoil’d clean,
And an Irish dean;

In this church he has put
A stone of two foot,
With a cup and a can, sir,
In respect to his grandsire;
So, Ireland, change thy tone,
And cry, O hone! O hone!
For England hath its own.