work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 4798,"","Searching ""heart"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2005-05-16 00:00:00 UTC,"Yet Oh! what Hero Folly can confound?
The dull, lethargic Villain feels no Wound:
Culprits, like poisonous Adders deaf, we find:
In Biscay's Bay who chides the raging Wind?
Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield,
All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;

Unstung by Shame, and resolute in Ill;
Vice is a Python Phoebus ne'er can kill:
Heedless of Satire, Sin persists to reign,
As Curfews bid us leave our Fires in vain;
Poets, and Setting-Dogs, one Task employs,
Each points at Knaves or Birds, but ne'er destroys;
What tho' you sweat, complain, and rail, and write,
The mad, luxurious Town sins on for Spite.
Could Boileau to reform a Nation hope?
A Sodom can't be mended by a Pope.
To cleanse th' Augëan Stable tho' you toil,
Still Virtue yields to[1] Heidegger and[2] Hoyle;
Still Britons (Justice, Freedom, Conscience sold)
Own the supreme Omnipotence of Gold.",,12767,"•I've included thrice: Impression, Callous, Shield.","""Such callous Hearts to no Impression yield, / All-guarded with Corruption's seven-fold Shield;""",Impression,2009-09-14 19:37:21 UTC,""