An Epigram [The Scriptures Affirm]

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Title:     An Epigram [The Scriptures Affirm]
Author: Jonathan Swift [More Titles by Swift]

The scriptures affirm (as I heard in my youth,
For indeed I ne'er read them, to speak for once truth)
That death is the wages of sin, but the just
Shall die not, although they be laid in the dust.
They say so; so be it, I care not a straw,
Although I be dead both in gospel and law;
In verse I shall live, and be read in each climate;
What more can be said of prime sergeant or primate?
While Carter and Prendergast both may be rotten,
And damn'd to the bargain, and yet be forgotten.

[The end]
Jonathan Swift's poem: Epigram [The Scriptures Affirm (as I Heard In My Youth]

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