The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift

Author:Jonathan Swift [Swift, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: English, English essays, Satire
Publisher: MOST Publishing

STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, 1718.

Stella this day is thirty-four

(We shan’t dispute a year or more)

However, Stella, be not troubled,

Although thy size and years are doubled

Since first I saw thee at sixteen,

The brightest virgin on the green.

So little is thy form declined;

Made up so largely in thy mind.

Oh, would it please the gods to split

Thy beauty, size, and years, and wit,

No age could furnish out a pair

Of nymphs so graceful, wise, and fair:

With half the lustre of your eyes,

With half your wit, your years, and size.

And then, before it grew too late,

How should I beg of gentle fate,

(That either nymph might lack her swain),

To split my worship too in twain.

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