The Irish satirist Jonathan Swift’s topical poems are set to music by composer Dave Soldier and sung by the British folksinger Eliza Carthy. These 300 year old rhymes, written for the newspapers are strangely current:   The 4th piece, on the death of fatuous politician plays on the term to “trump” as in   A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General   “His Grace! impossible! what dead! Of old age too, and in his bed! And could that mighty warrior fall? And so inglorious, after all! Well, since he’s gone, no matter how, The last loud trump must wake him now: And, trust me, as the noise grows stronger, He’d wish to sleep a little longer. “   In which “to trump” both refers to Gabriel’s trumpet and the Britishism “to fart”.   The 2nd, “The Bubble” is precisely the source of the term used for the housing bubble of 2009, which in 1721 was the South Seas bubble for importing slaves:   “The nation then too late will find,   Computing all their cost and trouble, Directors' promises but wind,   South Sea, at best, a mighty bubble.“   Sung by Eliza Carthy, the poems are set for the trio of flute (Robert Dick), viola (Richard Auldon Clark), and harp (Stacey Shames).   Setting Swift’s poems was originally suggested by the singer/ conductor Paul Hillier, who directs a choir in Dublin. The piece was premiered by Richard Auldon Clark’s Manhattan Chamber Orchestra.