"'My Sovereign, O beware: with piercing eye/ 'The secrets of thine Odo's bosom try: / 'Virtue, that never asks the test to spare, / 'The mirror to its inmost thoughts can claim; / 'And come forth purer from the searching flame!'"
— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
Place of Publication
Geneva
Publisher
W. Fick
Date
1824
Metaphor
"'My Sovereign, O beware: with piercing eye/ 'The secrets of thine Odo's bosom try: / 'Virtue, that never asks the test to spare, / 'The mirror to its inmost thoughts can claim; / 'And come forth purer from the searching flame!'"
Metaphor in Context
"If prayers, my Lord;" said Bertha: "if the glow
"Of heart devote and grateful can bestow
"Security, my Sovereign is secure!
"Long as his virtuous wishes, shall endure
"The happiness he merits: but beware!
"My Sovereign, O beware: with piercing eye
"The secrets of thine Odo's bosom try:
"Virtue, that never asks the test to spare,
"The mirror to its inmost thoughts can claim;
"And come forth purer from the searching flame!"
"Of heart devote and grateful can bestow
"Security, my Sovereign is secure!
"Long as his virtuous wishes, shall endure
"The happiness he merits: but beware!
"My Sovereign, O beware: with piercing eye
"The secrets of thine Odo's bosom try:
"Virtue, that never asks the test to spare,
"The mirror to its inmost thoughts can claim;
"And come forth purer from the searching flame!"
Categories
Provenance
Searching "thought" and "mirror" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
12/14/2005
