Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose
9. What does Swift say that he wants to leave to posterity? He prays to heaven about it
The words upon the window panel
Yeast (167)
The words upon the window panel
Yeast (167)
"Oh God, hear the prayer of Jonathan Swift, that afflicted man, and grant that he may leave to posterity nothing but his intellect that came to him from heaven." (Page 167)