Elephants For Want of Towns

So this verse has been kicking around my head for the past couple days, I read it a couple months ago, and now its popped up all of a sudden. Maybe it's a sign? I try treat nothing as a coincidence, or an accident, I believe everything happens for a reason. So why is this silly little verse repeating in my head like a broken record? I'll have to try and figure it out. Stay tuned.

"So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o’er uninhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns"
-Jonathan Swift

Lyrical Love,
Cara

ps. Just remembered where I read it, it was at the beginning of one of the chapters in The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill, excellent read if you have the time!