The Isles of Loch Awe and Other Poems of my Youth With Sixteen Illustrations. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton |
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SELF-COMMAND.
I have the pleasure now in self-commandOf one whose servants are obedient.
But formerly my weak will stood in awe
Of all its slaves, for frowning mutiny
Was brewing in the ship of my desires;
And Intellect, a captain gagged and bound,
Was laughed at. Now he holds his rightful place,
And tacks the ship, and saves her by a word,
When she is rushing on the reefs of sin.
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