Show II I I Dean Swi Swift ft a aI I Faithless s Lover Esther Johnson the Stella Immortalized Immortalized immortalized Immor Immor- by Dean Swift whose melanI melancholy melancholy melan melan- choly love affair with the great sa satirist satirist sa- sa has been the subject of oC so many I conjectures was born in Surre Surrey years ago While leading his Stella Stellato to believe that he was about to marry her Swift carried on a a correspondence I dence with his Farina Vanna a Miss Varand WarI Waring War War- I ing and permitted his Vanessa who was Esther to become I i violently infatuated with him When he accepted the tho deanery of oC St. St PatI Patrick's Patricks Patricks Patrick's Pat Pat- ricks rick's cathedral in Dublin he was I trifling with the affections of oC both young women At length in 1716 he consented to toa toa toa a secret marriage with Stella on condition that it should never be made known In the meantime he wrote his best verses In the guise gulso oCa of oC ofa ofa a faithful lover to Miss In 1723 Vanessa learned of or her lovers lover's duplicity and when Swift en engaged engaged engaged en- en cast her aside she quickly died of oC a broken heart Stella soon followed Vanessa to the grave |