Pope Sylvester II

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    Did some more sober critic come abroad?
    If wrong, I smil’d; if right, I kiss’d the rod.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    On this I ponder where’er I wander,
    And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
    With thy bells of Shandon,
    —Francis Sylvester Mahony (1805–1866)