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The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
Green
Left
Lopped
Boughs
Intemperance
Trunk
Withered
Trunks
Drunkenness

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