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Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, clergyman. A Description of a City Shower (l. 61–63). . .
The Complete Poems [Jonathan Swift]. Pat Rogers, ed. (1983) Penguin Books.
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