Elegy on the much lamented death of those excellent patriots and lovers of their country the family of the potatoes in the Kingdom of Ireland, : who fell by a general massacre, being confined and starved alive by cold and hunger (cruelest of deaths!) between the 26th day of December, and the 18th of January in the year 1739, to the inexpressible loss and grief of their weeping, bleeding country..
Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745
Dublin: : Printed by George Faulkner,,
1739-40..
First line reads: If ever Grief was great without Disguise.
In two columns.
Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift.
ESTC
Foxon
Ballads, English