Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose

9. What does Swift say that he wants to leave to posterity? He prays to heaven about it

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"Oh God, hear the prayer of Jonathan Swift, that afflicted man, and grant that he may leave to posterity nothing but his intellect that came to him from heaven." (Page 167)