Sunday, November 9, 2008

Johnathan Swift on The Bubble

No commentary needed:

The Bubble
Ye wise Philosophers explain
What Magick makes our Money rise,
When dropt into the Southern Main;
Or do these Juglers cheat our Eyes?

1 comment:

rosserjb@jmu.edu said...

"Impovernment of the booble by the bauble for the bubble."

James Joyce, 1939
Finnegan's Wake, p. 273