"In vain with Reason's Ballast do we try / The Ocean of Eternity, / Unfathom'd, without Shore."
— Woodward, George (b. 1708?)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House
Date
1730
Metaphor
"In vain with Reason's Ballast do we try / The Ocean of Eternity, / Unfathom'd, without Shore."
Metaphor in Context
II.
In vain with all the Batteries of Wit
Thy Presence we explore,
In vain with Reason's Ballast do we try
The Ocean of Eternity,
Unfathom'd, without Shore;
Lost and bewilder'd in the Maze,
We sail the dark, immeasurable Way,
Our Lamp denies a steddy Blaze,
And only casts a feeble Ray;
So all our Knowledge terminates in This,
Thou art from all Eternity Alone,
Immensity unknown.
In vain with all the Batteries of Wit
Thy Presence we explore,
In vain with Reason's Ballast do we try
The Ocean of Eternity,
Unfathom'd, without Shore;
Lost and bewilder'd in the Maze,
We sail the dark, immeasurable Way,
Our Lamp denies a steddy Blaze,
And only casts a feeble Ray;
So all our Knowledge terminates in This,
Thou art from all Eternity Alone,
Immensity unknown.
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Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1730).
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. George Woodward. (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1730). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
03/25/2013
