"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"

— Burns, Robert (1759-1796)


Date
1793
Metaphor
"Flit, Galloway, and find / Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, / The picture of thy mind"
Metaphor in Context
What dost thou in that mansion fair?
Flit, Galloway, and find
Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave,
The picture of thy mind
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Provenance
Searching "mind" and "cave" in HDIS (Poetry). Date given by www.robertburns.org
Date of Entry
01/17/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.