The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-11
Dean Swift's Cathedral.

Dean Swift's Cathedral.
The Cathedral Patcks presents many attractions
worthy of observation and remembrance As it. the
bust of Dean Swift commands look this eigy
parted genius greatness and eccentrc AS gaze upon
simple monument shadows of the past my
mental vision fancy chill autumn midnight in the
eventful year 175 solemn procession PAGES that dmy
who is buried tonight goes his grave by Dublin
The wild fu soul has found its repose last and
Swift too strange being be fairly understood EARTH
goes be judged the Great Tribunal That his proud
spirit bowed low at the dismal close of his feversh
ife clearly expressed by of his last
whole year of helpless diocy and silence CLEAN of
the old light back to him his birthday when his
housekeeper told him of the bonres and Examinations
better let it alone" And then in another brief he
said, 81 am what AMI am what am" And these words
he repeated two three times Is there something
touching in his reply to Mr. Delanys How do you do Mr.
Dean ?" am the Dean" renlies Swift; 81 what
was Pity me- and pray for me-"
The monument to the of Stella is likewise interest
ing it that of the Dean Both of the aon
the door that leads the robngoom of the clergy is
singular fact in Stella that she left sum of
to endow Vcarage the of which should
elo and the candidate who
in procuring the office was that position, with this apparent
impedment-an intention of taking wife, This however
did not ytate his claim to seek the Office.
There many memorials of the Dean Cathedral
OF these the slab erected him his servant Alexander
Magee, in commemoraon of his discretion, fidelity dill
gence of the most interesting When the Dean pub
shed the Drdps Letters reward offered for dis
of the author AT this time the DEAN who had quar-
rallied with Magee and discharged him. apprehensive that
he would betray him. However, the young faithful
He afterwards returned the Deans service
vice died; wheeupon Swift erected the slab his memory
Many the stories told of the brusque and
of the Dean TwoOf these mind write For
long while he endeavored induce the
resentaves of Duke Schomberg who killed
the Boyne monument to his memory This they
refused neglected do whereupon one himself
black slab which he inscribed high praise of gallant
dead and low abuse of the living 1t said that
the body of the great General removed from the
The other story told of the Dean is follows:
George Falkne his publisher went to London collect
scribers for his he Dean works. When he
lin, he presented himself before the Dean dressed laced
waistcoat bagwig, other opperes. The Dean
him mpostr Again he waited the Dean attired
in another MANNER and this occasion he received him
daily thus MY good friend George am heartily glad to
An mpudent fellow in laced waistcoat here
and would fan have passed for but dismissed with
flea III his ear 1t this Flkner who instrumental
in dedcatng The bust and tablet the memory of Dean
Near the bust of Swift the little chapel in which placed
the bapsmal font Few children have been baptized it.
have heard of only and he said be oM child
single child ume was not an eccentric one The
bust of John Ppot full of character the eye the
nostr the mouth bspeak the fire of genius The pictures
the orator do not after him. He has in them yery mean
oer like look In the bust he appears the gifted
geous man, with brilliant thoughts and daring soul princi
pal object of interest the the memory of Cap
tain Boyd, RN who lost his life Kngstown the 9th of
feoruay 1861 In an attempt to rescue the crew OF sinking
vessel The of is bold and striking. The
fragment of rock and his body this rope he extends
the struggling sailors On the pedestal poetca lines
not very descriptive The concluding lines describe
and picture
o But f fand Beneath atf the ~ave"
The noble statue of the Duke of Buckingham the
tention That of the Right Honorable George Ogeis but
poor and ineegant work of art depicting the worthy
hnikn dancngmaster The memorials the 18th ROYAL
Irish who fell in China in 1902 with flags on the
wall above touching in the extreme One of the most
interesting memorials in the cathedral that which as have
said erected by Dean Swift Frederick Duke of Schom
berg Any who has read Macaua vivid dissertation of
the death of Schomberg the battle Bovine will view
the monument with veneration In dark corner near the
place in which the coors of the 18th Royal Irish have been
to he
Archbishop Wha,ey the unsumirg slab the memory of
Sehomberg will he found indeed, it is plain tablet was