Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 18801918. Vol. III. The Eighteenth Century: Addison to Blake | | The Day of Judgment | By Jonathan Swift (16671745) |
| (First printed in a letter from Lord Chesterfield to Voltaire, Aug. 27, 1752.) |
| WITH a whirl of thought oppressd, | |
I sunk from reverie to rest. | |
A horrid vision seized my head, | |
I saw the graves give up their dead! | |
Jove, armd with terrors, bursts the skies, | 5 |
And thunder roars and lightning flies! | |
Amazed, confused, its fate unknown, | |
The world stands trembling at his throne! | |
While each pale sinner hung his head, | |
Jove, nodding, shook the heavens, and said: | 10 |
Offending race of human kind, | |
By nature, reason, learning, blind; | |
You who, through frailty, steppd aside; | |
And you, who never fell from pride: | |
You who in different sects were shammd, | 15 |
And come to see each other damnd; | |
(So some folk told you, but they knew | |
No more of Joves designs than you;) | |
The worlds mad business now is oer, | |
And I resent these pranks no more. | 20 |
I to such blockheads set my wit! | |
I damn such fools!Go, go, youre bit. | | |
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