Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Selwyn Image b. c.1850The Protestation
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Of Love’s pale alabaster brow;
Of what strange substance are ye made,
That such enchantments on me now,
Resistless, by your grace are laid?
The tides of my obedient mind:
Ye are the founts whereat my soul
In thirst may cool assuagement find:
The soothing balm to make me whole.
Refuge I find from bounding sin:
Ye are the paths, by which my feet
Move onward to God’s peace within:
The abode where all pure memories meet.
’Mid every circumstance of fate!
In what true numbers shall I sing
The glory and virtues of your state,
Whence for my soul all grace doth spring?