"Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides / The mind, sole judge in all debate."
— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
J. Hatchard
Date
1807
Metaphor
"Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides / The mind, sole judge in all debate."
Metaphor in Context
Begin the song! begin the theme!--
Alas! and is Invention dead?
Dream we no more the golden dream?
Is Mem'ry with her treasures fled?
Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides
The mind, sole judge in all debate;
And thus the important point decides,
For laurels, 't is, alas! too late.
What is possess'd we may retain,
But for new conquests strive in vain.
Alas! and is Invention dead?
Dream we no more the golden dream?
Is Mem'ry with her treasures fled?
Yes, 't is too late,--now Reason guides
The mind, sole judge in all debate;
And thus the important point decides,
For laurels, 't is, alas! too late.
What is possess'd we may retain,
But for new conquests strive in vain.
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "judge" in HDIS (Poetry); found again searching "reason" and "judge"
Citation
Crabbe, George, Poems. London: J. Hatchard, 1807.
Date of Entry
08/31/2004
