I marched three miles through scorching sand
- DMI number:
- 11314
- First Line:
- I marched three miles through scorching sand
- Last Line:
- What mortal else could ever go through it
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Lampoon and Couplet
- Themes:
- Religion and Trades / labour
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, 675- ('Doubtfully by Swift')
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- CCCCV. Dean Swift's Curate.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A new miscellany in prose and verse by Swift, Holles St John and other eminent hands [T67058]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- The Hard Duty of Dean Swift's Curate.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanea nova et curiosa: the new and curious miscellany; to which is added a collection of poems [T73638]
- Page No(s):
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- Spoken extempore by Dean Swift, on his Curate's Complaint of hard Duty.
- Attribution:
- by Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems on several occasions [T71696] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- Spoken Extempore by Dean Swift on his Curate's Complaint of hard Duty.
- Attribution:
- by Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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