Enough has been transcribed to show Swift's art in this poem, which is of considerable, but not of wearisome length. Perhaps ten or twelve pieces, in addition to those already mentioned, will repay the student's attention. One of the worthiest is a _Rhapsody on Poetry_. _Baucis and Philemon_, too, is a lively piece that pleased Goldsmith, and will please every reader. It was much altered from the original draught at Addison's suggestion; but the alterations are not improvements.[43] _The City Shower_ is a piece of Dutch painting, reminding us of Crabbe. _Mrs. Harris's Petition_ is an admirable bit of fooling; _Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter_, is in its way inimitable; and so, too, is the amusing talk of 'my lady's waiting-woman' in _The Grand Question Debated_. It is difficult, unhappily, to pursue one's way through Swift's poems, without being repelled again and again by the filth in which it pleases him to wade. _The Beast's Confession_, which has been reprinted in the _Selections from Swift_ (Clarendon Press), is not obscene, like _The Lady's Dressing-Room_, _Strephon and Chloe_, and other poems of the class; but it has the inhumanity which deforms the description of the Houyhnhnms. Strange to say, in private life Swift appears to have been not only moral in conduct, but refined in conversation, and he is even said to have rebuked Stella on one occasion for a slightly coarse remark. His imagination was diseased, and he was himself always apprehensive of the calamity under which he became at last 'a driveller and a show.' 'I shall be like that tree,' he said once to the poet Young, 'I shall die at the top.' It has been already said that _The Tale of a Tub_ was written at Moor Park. It appeared in 1704, and although published anonymously and never owned, the book effectually stood in the way of Swift's high preferment in the Church. Queen Anne declined, and not without reason, to make its author a bishop.