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- George Herbert

The harbingers are come. See, see their mark;

White is their colour, and behold my head.

But must they have my brain? must they dispark

Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred?

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Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift

1667–1745IrishEnlightenment18th Century

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal, among other works.