One may be "from all base alloy refin'd, / "More to resemble the Eternal Mind,"
— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by J. D. for John Baker and Henry Brome
Date
1679
Metaphor
One may be "from all base alloy refin'd, / "More to resemble the Eternal Mind,"
Metaphor in Context
"Witness Thy Table which I here accept,
"Worthy for the' Hand design'd it to be kept,
"Within my Archives a fair Room to have,
"And Thy mean Name from dark Oblivion save;
"Till to another Temple, that's above,
"Thy Souls true Image I hereafter shall remove.
"Where several, whom Thou here dost know,
"Ambitious at their very Names to bow,
"Leaving their wanton Strains behind,
"And from all base alloy refin'd,
"More to resemble the Eternal Mind,
"With several, who were never here,
("So Godlike all their Numbers were)
"As Heman, Ethan, Moises, and the Quire,
"Of Jewish Psalmists, whom Heaven did inspire,
"And Jesses Son, whose Harp thou late didst bear,
"In Glory with the first Great Maker live,
"And for your Mortal Bays, a Starry Diadem receive.
"Worthy for the' Hand design'd it to be kept,
"Within my Archives a fair Room to have,
"And Thy mean Name from dark Oblivion save;
"Till to another Temple, that's above,
"Thy Souls true Image I hereafter shall remove.
"Where several, whom Thou here dost know,
"Ambitious at their very Names to bow,
"Leaving their wanton Strains behind,
"And from all base alloy refin'd,
"More to resemble the Eternal Mind,
"With several, who were never here,
("So Godlike all their Numbers were)
"As Heman, Ethan, Moises, and the Quire,
"Of Jewish Psalmists, whom Heaven did inspire,
"And Jesses Son, whose Harp thou late didst bear,
"In Glory with the first Great Maker live,
"And for your Mortal Bays, a Starry Diadem receive.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "alloy" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in the ESTC (1679, 1713).
Text from A Paraphrase Upon the Canticles, and Some Select Hymns of the New and Old Testament, With Other Occasional Compositions in English Verse. by Samuel Woodford (London: Printed by J. D. for John Baker and Henry Brome, 1679). <Link to EEBO>
Text from A Paraphrase Upon the Canticles, and Some Select Hymns of the New and Old Testament, With Other Occasional Compositions in English Verse. by Samuel Woodford (London: Printed by J. D. for John Baker and Henry Brome, 1679). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
04/14/2005
