Sweeping from butchers' 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. [Footnote 1: Swift was very proud of the "Shower," and so refers to it in the Journal to Stella. See "Prose Works," vol. ii, p. 33: "They say 'tis the best thing I ever writ, and I think so too. I suppose the Bishop of Clogher will show it you. Pray tell me how you like it." Again, p. 41: "there never was such a Shower since Danäe's," etc.--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 2: "Aches" is two syllables, but modern printers, who had lost the right pronunciation, have _aches_ as one syllable; and then to complete the metre have foisted in "aches _will_ throb." Thus, what the poet and the linguist wish to preserve, is altered and finally lost. See Disraeli's "Curiosities of Literature," vol. i, title "Errata," p. 81, edit. 1858. A good example occurs in "Hudibras," Part III, canto 2, line 407, where persons are mentioned who "Can by their Pangs and _Aches_ find All turns and changes of the wind."--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 3: "'Twas doubtful which was sea and which was sky." GARTH'S _Dispensary_.] [Footnote 4: Originally thus, but altered when Pope published the "Miscellanies": "His only coat, where dust confused with rain, Roughens the nap, and leaves a mingled stain."--_Scott_.] [Footnote 5: Alluding to the change of ministry at that time.] [Footnote 6: Virg., "Aeneid," lib. ii.--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 7: Fleet Ditch, in which Pope laid the famous diving scene in "The Dunciad"; celebrated also by Gay in his "Trivia." There is a view of Fleet Ditch as an illustration to "The Dunciad" in Warburton's edition of Pope, 8vo, 1751.--_W. E. B._] ON THE LITTLE HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD OF CASTLENOCK 1710