"How short aspiring Reason's vaunted Line, / When stretch'd to search thy Ways, thy Works divine!""
— Langhorne, John (1735-1779)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Griffiths [etc.]
Date
1760
Metaphor
"How short aspiring Reason's vaunted Line, / When stretch'd to search thy Ways, thy Works divine!""
Metaphor in Context
Then Job reply'd, low-bending to the Throne,
"Resistless Pow'r belongs to Thee alone:
The deep-embow'ring Shades, the darkest Night
Conceal no Sinner from thy piercing Sight.
My trembling Soul attempts no more to find
Th' unbounded Reach of thy creative Mind.
How short aspiring Reason's vaunted Line,
When stretch'd to search thy Ways, thy Works divine!"
"Resistless Pow'r belongs to Thee alone:
The deep-embow'ring Shades, the darkest Night
Conceal no Sinner from thy piercing Sight.
My trembling Soul attempts no more to find
Th' unbounded Reach of thy creative Mind.
How short aspiring Reason's vaunted Line,
When stretch'd to search thy Ways, thy Works divine!"
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "line" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
05/11/2005
