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Samuel Madden (23 December 1686 - 31 December 1765) was an Irish author. His works include Themistocles; The Lover of His Country, Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, and Memoirs Of the Twentieth Century. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote of him, "His was a name which Ireland ought to honour".
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βSome write their wrongs in marble: he more just,
Stoopβd down serene and wrote them in the dust,β
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.
There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
And grieved they could not βscape the Almighty eye.β
Stoopβd down serene and wrote them in the dust,β
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.
There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
And grieved they could not βscape the Almighty eye.β
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βSome write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust, Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind, There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie, And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.β
About Samuel Madden
Samuel Madden (23 December 1686 - 31 December 1765) was an Irish author. His works include Themistocles; The Lover of His Country, Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, and Memoirs Of the Twentieth Century. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote of him, "His was a name which Ireland ought to honour".