"'Cease base seducers! cease; against your art / 'By truth and virtue is my firm mind steel'd."
— Burges, Sir James Bland (1752-1824)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by C. Roworth, for T. Egerton [etc.]
Date
1801
Metaphor
"'Cease base seducers! cease; against your art / 'By truth and virtue is my firm mind steel'd."
Metaphor in Context
"Cease base seducers! cease; against your art
"By truth and virtue is my firm mind steel'd.
"If ye be human, hence, far hence depart;
"But, in those forms if Dæmons be conceal'd,
"Guard me, ye Saints! ye succouring Angels shield!
"Great Ruler of the world! thy suppliant hear;
"Strip their false semblance, let them stand reveal'd:
"Tho' rob'd in all their terrors they appear,
"Arm'd with thy faith my soul can never yield to fear!"
"By truth and virtue is my firm mind steel'd.
"If ye be human, hence, far hence depart;
"But, in those forms if Dæmons be conceal'd,
"Guard me, ye Saints! ye succouring Angels shield!
"Great Ruler of the world! thy suppliant hear;
"Strip their false semblance, let them stand reveal'd:
"Tho' rob'd in all their terrors they appear,
"Arm'd with thy faith my soul can never yield to fear!"
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
06/09/2005
