Famous Quotes | Come hither, all ye empty...
Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.
- Jonathan Swift
Attribution: Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, clergyman. A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General (l. 25–32). . . The Complete Poems [Jonathan Swift]. Pat Rogers, ed. (1983) Penguin Books.
Categories: Clergyman, Death, Satirist
