work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 6163,"","Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""mind"" and ""chains"" ",2005-05-27 00:00:00 UTC,"Thro' this incongruous Crowd no Friendship's found--
This grows, alone, on consecrated ground!
In such a soil, in such inclement sky,
Mildews, and blights, both leaves, and blooms, destroy!
Pride's caterpillars eat its infant fruits--
Lust's canker-worms corrode its feeble roots--
The fires of Passion, or the frosts of Sloth,
If ever planted, still impede its growth--
Like damps, or droughts, destroy its tender head,
Or tempests tear it from its barren bed:
Religion can, alone, light up its fires--
Love only keeps alive its pure desires;
To cherish Grace, and twine the golden chain,
Uniting Minds, and making one of twain--

While moral Virtues link the mass, immense,
Inspiring courtesy, and confidence--
To shape the parts, and keep the polish pure,
Connecting each, and holding all secure.",2011-05-26,16287,"","""To cherish Grace, and twine the golden chain, / Uniting Minds, and making one of twain.""",Fetters,2011-07-20 17:03:52 UTC,""