a thyroglossal carcinoma

[…] when Pope (in an unsurviving letter) apparently asked Swift what he had been writing.

Sol (named after the solar eclipse on the day of his birth) was born in March 2015 with an undetected clot in his upper left arm.

The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,