"While in your hearts the flames of love may burn, / To dress the vault, like lamps in sacred urn."
— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for Benjamin Gunne
Date
1758
Metaphor
"While in your hearts the flames of love may burn, / To dress the vault, like lamps in sacred urn."
Metaphor in Context
Come christian to the corps, in spirit come,
And with true signs of grief surround the tomb.
Upon the threshold stone let sin be slain,
Such sacrifice will best avenge his pain.
Bring thither then repentance, sighs and tears,
Bring mortify'd desires, bring holy fears;
And earnest pray'r express'd from thoughts that roll
Through broken mind, and groanings of the soul;
These scatter on his hearse, and so prepare
Those obsequies the Jews deny'd him there,
While in your hearts the flames of love may burn,
To dress the vault, like lamps in sacred urn.
There oft my soul in such a grateful way,
Thine humblest homage with the godly pay.
And with true signs of grief surround the tomb.
Upon the threshold stone let sin be slain,
Such sacrifice will best avenge his pain.
Bring thither then repentance, sighs and tears,
Bring mortify'd desires, bring holy fears;
And earnest pray'r express'd from thoughts that roll
Through broken mind, and groanings of the soul;
These scatter on his hearse, and so prepare
Those obsequies the Jews deny'd him there,
While in your hearts the flames of love may burn,
To dress the vault, like lamps in sacred urn.
There oft my soul in such a grateful way,
Thine humblest homage with the godly pay.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "lamp" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
6 entries in ESTC (1758, 1786, 1796, 1797).
The Posthumous Works of Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher; Containing Poems Moral and Divine: and on Various Other Subjects. (Dublin: Printed for Benjamin Gunne, Bookseller in Caple-Street, 1758).
The Posthumous Works of Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher; Containing Poems Moral and Divine: and on Various Other Subjects. (Dublin: Printed for Benjamin Gunne, Bookseller in Caple-Street, 1758).
Date of Entry
01/19/2006
