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If you have London still at heart, We’ll make a small one here by art: The difference is not much between St. James’ Park and Stephen’s Green; And Dawson Street will serve as well To lead you hither as Pall Mall.
...The Deanery House may well be matched (Under correction) with the Thatched*
...Can you on Dublin look with scorn? Yet here were you and Ormonde born. Oh were but you and I so wise
To look with Robin Grattan’s eyes. Robin adores that spot of earth,
That literal spot which gave him birth, And swears Cushogue§ is to his taste, As fine as Hampton Court at least.
* A tavern in St. James’s Street, where Swift had dined when in London.
§ Swift noted this was the Irish name of Belcamp, home of his friend Robin Grattan.
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