"Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love, / By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n, / Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve, / Thy earth-clad spirit to refine, / And gradual raise to love divine, / And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!"
— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by S. Richardson
Date
1758
Metaphor
"Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love, / By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n, / Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve, / Thy earth-clad spirit to refine, / And gradual raise to love divine, / And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!"
Metaphor in Context
No more repine, my coward soul,
The sorrows of mankind to share,
Which he who could the world controul
Did not disdain to bear!
Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love,
By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n,
Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve,
Thy earth-clad spirit to refine,
And gradual raise to love divine,
And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!
(p. 189)
The sorrows of mankind to share,
Which he who could the world controul
Did not disdain to bear!
Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love,
By Heav'n's high King in bounty giv'n,
Thy stubborn heart to soften and improve,
Thy earth-clad spirit to refine,
And gradual raise to love divine,
And wing its soaring flight to Heav'n!
(p. 189)
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Citation
Text from Hester Chapone, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 3rd edition (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly ... and J. Walter, 1777). <Link to 3rd edition in Google Books> <Link to version printed in Elizabeth Carter's translation of Epictetus, in Google Books>
Date of Entry
06/17/2011
