A priest can "secretly impress / On the soft wax of Woman's yielded mind / Each vile impression, which a Jesuit loves"
— Montgomery, Robert (1807-1855)
Date
1854
Metaphor
A priest can "secretly impress / On the soft wax of Woman's yielded mind / Each vile impression, which a Jesuit loves"
Metaphor in Context
The shaping genius of a priestly tongue
When so applied, can secretly impress
On the soft wax of Woman's yielded mind
Each vile impression, which a Jesuit loves
Or sanctions. What a rav'ning lust of power
Inhuman, must that papal Church corrode,
Who God would rival, by discerning soul,
And analyse its living essence down
To system! Well may Superstition, mad
As impious, dream the pausing Angels stand
Respectful, when such priest-gods pass or speak:
For, what they cannot, priested tyrants do,--
Master the will, and mechanise a soul!
When so applied, can secretly impress
On the soft wax of Woman's yielded mind
Each vile impression, which a Jesuit loves
Or sanctions. What a rav'ning lust of power
Inhuman, must that papal Church corrode,
Who God would rival, by discerning soul,
And analyse its living essence down
To system! Well may Superstition, mad
As impious, dream the pausing Angels stand
Respectful, when such priest-gods pass or speak:
For, what they cannot, priested tyrants do,--
Master the will, and mechanise a soul!
Categories
Provenance
Searching "wax" and "mind" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
03/27/2005
