The Poems of Jonathan Swift

-Apollo to the Dean

[1] 1720

[Footnote 1: Collated with the original MS. in Swift's writing, and also with the copy transcribed by Stella.--Forster.]

[Footnote 2: Stella's copy has "the."--Forster.]

[Footnote 3: Diana.]

[Footnote 4: As originally written, this passage ran:

"Wherein she distinctly could read ev'ry line And found by the wit the Fancy was mine For none of his poems were ever yet shown Which he in his conscience could claim for his own."--Forster.]