- URBS INTACTA MANET - semper intacta manebit,
Tangere crabrones quis bene sanus amat?



TRANSLATION

A thistle is the Scottish arms,
Which to the toucher threatens harms,
What are the arms of Waterford,
That no man touches - but a - - ?

(C) Jonathan Swift
03/10/2020


Best Poems of Jonathan Swift

• On A Shadow In A Glass
• On Snow
• On The Vowels
• Stella-s Birth-day. 1724-5
• Market Women-s Cries
• On Ink
• On The World
• The Fagot
• Market Womens Cries
• On A Circle
• On A Cannon
• Corinna
• A Satirical Elegy
• Joan Cudgels Ned
• Ballad
• On Time
• A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed
• The Fable Of Midas
• A Description Of The Morning
• Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift, D.s.p.d.