'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."
— Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)
Work Title
Date
1764
Metaphor
'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."
Metaphor in Context
Full in the front, stretched out in length,
Where Nature put forth all her strength
In spring eternal, lay a plain
Where our brave fathers used to train
Their sons to arms, to teach the art
Of war, and steel the infant heart;
Labour, their hardy nurse, when young,
Their joints had knit, their nerves had strung;
Abstinence, foe declared to death,
Had, from the time they first drew breath,
The best of doctors, with plain food,
Kept pure the channel of their blood;
Health in their cheeks bade colour rise,
And Glory sparkled in their eyes.
(II, pp. 15-16)
Where Nature put forth all her strength
In spring eternal, lay a plain
Where our brave fathers used to train
Their sons to arms, to teach the art
Of war, and steel the infant heart;
Labour, their hardy nurse, when young,
Their joints had knit, their nerves had strung;
Abstinence, foe declared to death,
Had, from the time they first drew breath,
The best of doctors, with plain food,
Kept pure the channel of their blood;
Health in their cheeks bade colour rise,
And Glory sparkled in their eyes.
(II, pp. 15-16)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry); found again in ECCO-TCP.
Citation
4 entries in ESTC (1764, 1765).
See The Duellist. A Poem. In Three Books. by C. Churchill. (London: Printed for G. Kearsly; W. Flexney; J. Coote; C. Henderson; J. Gardiner; and J. Almon, 1764). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from Poems of Charles Churchill, ed. James Laver ([London]: The King's Printers, 1933).
See The Duellist. A Poem. In Three Books. by C. Churchill. (London: Printed for G. Kearsly; W. Flexney; J. Coote; C. Henderson; J. Gardiner; and J. Almon, 1764). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from Poems of Charles Churchill, ed. James Laver ([London]: The King's Printers, 1933).
Date of Entry
06/09/2005
