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VI. Another, at Holyhead^[1]

O NEPTUNE! Neptune! must I still

Be here detain'd against my will?
Is this your justice, when I'm come
Above two hundred miles from home!
O'er mountains steep, o'er dusty plains,
Half choked with dust, half drown'd with rains;
Only your Godship to implore,
To let me kiss your other shore?
A boon so small! but I may weep,
While you're, like Baal, fast asleep.

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VII. Another, written upon a Window where there was no Writing before.

THANKS to my stars, I once can see

A window here from scribbling free!
Here no conceited coxcombs pass,
To scratch their paltry drabs on glass;
Nor party-fool is calling names.
Or dealing crowns to George and James.

1. These verses are signed J— K—, but written, as it is presumed, in Dr. Swift's hand.

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