Richard Chenevix Trench (Ричард Ченевикс Тренч)

Sonnet (What good soever in thy heart or mind)

What good soever in thy heart or mind
Doth yet no higher source nor fountain own
Than thine own self, nor bow to other throne—
Suspect and fear—although therein thou find
High purpose to go forth and bless thy kind,
Or in the awful temple of thy soul
To worship what is loveliest, and controul
The ill within, and by strong laws to bind.
Good is of God—and none is therefore sure
That has dared wander from its source away:
Laws without sanction will not long endure,
Love will grow faint and fainter day by day,
And Beauty from the straight path will allure,
And weakening first, will afterwards betray.

1. To a Friend Entering the Ministry
2. To the Same (Songs of deliverance compassed thee about)
3. Sonnet to Silvio Pellico, on Reading the Account of His Imprisonment
4. Lines
5. To Nicholas, Emperor of Russia

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