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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift, detail of an oil painting by Charles Jervas, c. 1718; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Jonathan Swift, the renowned Anglo-Irish author and clergyman, composed his own epitaph, which is inscribed on his memorial tablet in St. Patrickâs Cathedral. In this final message, he wrote that he lies "where savage indignation can no longer tear his heart."1