"Oh how this earth's best blessings sink in worth, / When on that scene is open'd the mind's eyes!"
— Dodd, William (1729-1777)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Faden and Sold by E. Dilly
Date
w. 1757, 1758
Metaphor
"Oh how this earth's best blessings sink in worth, / When on that scene is open'd the mind's eyes!"
Metaphor in Context
There, Maria, there
Must thou and I, with all our kindred souls
The righteous sentence, the just meed of all
Our actions, the eternal doom receive,
Eternal life, eternal death!--How great!
Oh how this earth's best blessings sink in worth,
When on that scene is open'd the mind's eyes!
Where vengeance, vengeance dire, unutterable,
On those shall fiercely fall, who know not God,
Nor the blest Gospel of our sovereign Lord,
With faithful love, obey: these from his face
And from the living glory of his power,
With everlasting ruin, endless woe
Shall then be punish'd: then shall be consign'd
To bottomless perdition: and condemn'd
To dwell in hopeless horror, headlong hurl'd
Down to the flaming pit, and bound in fire
That never shall its hottest rage remit,
Be quenched never!--Oh most horrible!
Oh horrible to heart and ear!--And what
Hath earth's poor lusts and vanities most vain
To counterpoise this death eternal? What
To counterpoise the loss of that high bliss
Which now shall crown the Righteous: when their Lord
Shall come to be admired in his saints,
And glorified in each believing soul!
Must thou and I, with all our kindred souls
The righteous sentence, the just meed of all
Our actions, the eternal doom receive,
Eternal life, eternal death!--How great!
Oh how this earth's best blessings sink in worth,
When on that scene is open'd the mind's eyes!
Where vengeance, vengeance dire, unutterable,
On those shall fiercely fall, who know not God,
Nor the blest Gospel of our sovereign Lord,
With faithful love, obey: these from his face
And from the living glory of his power,
With everlasting ruin, endless woe
Shall then be punish'd: then shall be consign'd
To bottomless perdition: and condemn'd
To dwell in hopeless horror, headlong hurl'd
Down to the flaming pit, and bound in fire
That never shall its hottest rage remit,
Be quenched never!--Oh most horrible!
Oh horrible to heart and ear!--And what
Hath earth's poor lusts and vanities most vain
To counterpoise this death eternal? What
To counterpoise the loss of that high bliss
Which now shall crown the Righteous: when their Lord
Shall come to be admired in his saints,
And glorified in each believing soul!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "eye" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1758, 1777).
See Thoughts on the Glorious Epiphany of the Lord Jesus Christ. A Poetical Essay Written at Southampton in the Year MDCCLVII. Sacred to Friendship. by the Reverend William Dodd (London: Printed by W. Faden and Sold by E. Dilly, 1758). <Link to ESTC>
See Thoughts on the Glorious Epiphany of the Lord Jesus Christ. A Poetical Essay Written at Southampton in the Year MDCCLVII. Sacred to Friendship. by the Reverend William Dodd (London: Printed by W. Faden and Sold by E. Dilly, 1758). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
04/17/2006
