We both are mortal; but thou, frailer creature,
May'st die, like me, by chance, but not by nature.
More verses by Jonathan Swift
- To Stella On Her Birth-Day, 1721-2
- On Snow
- Atlas; Or The Minister Of State
- The Virtues Of Sid Hamet The Magician’s Rod
- The Famous Speech-Maker Of England Or Baron (Alias Barren) Lovel’s Charge At The Assizes At Exon, April 5, 1710