Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Tower
4. which words of Yeats in this poem relate to Swift's epitaph?
Blood and the Moon 133-35
Blood and the Moon 133-35
Here is Swift's epitaph.
Swift has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his Breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-Besotted Traveler; he
Served human liberty.
Here is an excerpt from the poem,
Swift beating on his breast in sibylline frenzy blind
Because the heart in his blood-sodden breast had
dragged him down into mankind,