Epigram [Behold! A Proof Of Irish Sense]

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Title:     Epigram [Behold! A Proof Of Irish Sense]
Author: Jonathan Swift [More Titles by Swift]

Epigram[1]

Behold! a proof of _Irish_ sense;
Here _Irish_ wit is seen!
When nothing's left that's worth defence,
We build a magazine.

[Footnote 1: Swift, in his latter days, driving out with his physician, Dr. Kingsbury, observed a new building, and asked what it was designed for. On being told that it was a magazine for arms and powder, "Oh! Oh!" said the Dean, "This is worth remarking; my tablets, as Hamlet says, my tablets"--and taking out his pocket-book, he wrote the above epigram.--_W. E. B._]

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Jonathan Swift's poem: Epigram [Behold! A Proof Of Irish Sense]

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