The design of love / written by E.B.

  • Parker, George Williams.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The design of love / written by E.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    150. Affection’s loving bonds, and took the yoke A true self-sacrifice demands of all! But ere a chosen champion* **4 closed his work, How wrought yet more on that mis-guided kingf, A pliant tool in cunning Evil’s hands, The mighty foe of Good ; who never rests Till he has gained his end, or met defeat ? Where royal Greed can turn a lustful eye, And chafe at check to Pleasure’s grasping form, Appeared the garden where a martyr’s blood;]; 160. Still cried aloud for vengeance—which would fall On himf whose greed had borne a deadly fruit; On her§ whose stronger will impelled to sin, When Vacillation trembled in the breeze; On all whose perjured voices gave their aid To Murder, posing in a borrowed garb ! “He met Him at the And when to take what Murder’s Vineyard of Naboth! hand bestowed Went Greed, || with Conscience murmuring faint reproof, While in its train a waiting Vengeance rode ;^[ HE rose to meet it at the very gate, 170. AVliose angry eye had marked a martyr’s fall! “ Ah ! Thou hast found me out,*4*4 a dreaded foe ! ”— Said guilty Conscience, recognizing HIM, Ere yet in wrath a Judge Almighty spoke: “ Who robs of life, by Murder’s hand will fall! Wilt try to sin, and hide the deed from Me ? — Then where the liaud has shed a righteous blood Thy own in fitting retribution falls ! And all thy evil house will share the doom ; Sheff most of all who ever led astray, 180. And bent a pliant will through one more strong, Whose blood bedews the stones of Jezreel’s gate, AVIiere wait the dogs to tear a mangled form ! ” But though the doom eternal Justice spoke, Pepentance’ hand|J (at Mercy’s urgent prayer) * Elijah, f Ahab. J Naboth’s. § Jezebel. || Ahab met by Elijah at the vineyard of Naboth (date about n.c., 899). IF Jehu. **1 Kings xxi., 20. ft Jezebel, 1 Kings xxi, 23. JJ Ahib’s public self-humiliation, 1 Kings xxi., 27.