Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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SONNET SUGGESTED BY A GROUPE OF SCULPTURE AT THE CHURCH OF ST. SEVERINO, AT NAPLES. |
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SONNET SUGGESTED BY A GROUPE OF SCULPTURE AT THE CHURCH OF ST. SEVERINO, AT NAPLES.
Myriads are caught in thy huge net, Oh! Vice!Most willing prisoners—and for thee they toil,
And hug close, closer still their Gordianed coil,
And spurn fair Virtue's gems of purest price,
Nor mark her glorious light—though twice or thrice
They may have felt remorse, and sought to foil
Their cunning master—they have laid the oil
Of slippery backsliding again—(no nice
Regards for her preserving) to their tame
And treacherous Souls—most slavish of all slaves,
E'en so once more they by their choice became!
For whereso'er his dusky hand he waves,
They follow on through wrath, and flood, and flame—
And each for him the Eternal Misery braves!
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