"While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends, / And Health and Study serve each other's Ends: / I view the happy School,--and thence presage / The fair Succession of a rising Age."
— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1738
Metaphor
"While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends, / And Health and Study serve each other's Ends: / I view the happy School,--and thence presage / The fair Succession of a rising Age."
Metaphor in Context
Beneath the Shade of Windsor's lofty Grove,
On Silver Thames, as Eaton's Muses rove;
Nor do the Nine on Esca's Bank disdain
To choose a Shelter, and renew their Strain:
While these fair Scenes to learned Ease invite,
And heighten Contemplation to Delight!
Within this bless'd Retreat the British Youth
Are taught the Love of Virtue, and of Truth:
And from the Patterns of preceding Days,
Learn by just Merit to arrive at Praise:
From ancient Heroes catch the noble Fire,
Inflam'd, to practise what they first admire;
While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends,
And Health and Study serve each other's Ends:
I view the happy School,--and thence presage
The fair Succession of a rising Age.
On Silver Thames, as Eaton's Muses rove;
Nor do the Nine on Esca's Bank disdain
To choose a Shelter, and renew their Strain:
While these fair Scenes to learned Ease invite,
And heighten Contemplation to Delight!
Within this bless'd Retreat the British Youth
Are taught the Love of Virtue, and of Truth:
And from the Patterns of preceding Days,
Learn by just Merit to arrive at Praise:
From ancient Heroes catch the noble Fire,
Inflam'd, to practise what they first admire;
While healthful Exercise the Mind unbends,
And Health and Study serve each other's Ends:
I view the happy School,--and thence presage
The fair Succession of a rising Age.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "unbend" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
05/09/2011
