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Behold his funeral appears,
Nor widow’s sighs, nor orphan’s tears,
Wont at such times each heart to pierce,
Attend the progress of his hearse.
And what of that? his friends may say,
He had those honors in his day.
True to his profit and his pride,
He made them weep before he died.

Jonathan Swift

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Source: A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General [1722], l. 17

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A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General [1722], l. 17

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