"Cleanse me from soul infecting sin, / And purely purg away my dross, / O do thou take from me my Tin;"

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Author

Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Work Title

Divine Ejaculations. [from KOSMOBREGGIA, or the infancy of the world: With an Appendix of Gods resting day, Edon Garden; Mans Happiness before, Misery after, his Fall. Whereunto is added, The Praise of Nothing; Divine Ejaculations; The four Ages of the world; The Birth of Christ; Also a Century of Historical Applications; With a Taste of Poetical fictions. Written some years since by N. B. ... And now published at the request of his Friends

Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Robert Crofts [etc.]
Date
1658
Metaphor
"Cleanse me from soul infecting sin, / And purely purg away my dross, / O do thou take from me my Tin;"
Metaphor in Context
Cleanse me from soul infecting sin,
And purely purg away my dross,
O do thou take from me my Tin;
(And make me joy in such a loss,)
O Lord my crooked wayes reforme,
And be my pilot in a storme.
Categories
Mineral::Dross and Tin
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "dross" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
07/19/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.