SONNET.—MORAL STRENGTH.
Reading edition
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BY MRS. E. C. KINNEY.
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The spirit that in conscious right is strong,
By Treachery or Rage may be assailed;
But over single-handed Right, hath Wrong
Never by art or multitude prevailed;
As Samson, shaking off the withes that failed
To hold the Titan, rose all free among
The weak Philistines that before him quailed,
And bade defiance to the coward-throng!
So the Titanic soul through moral power
Rending the toils of Calumny, doth tower—
A host within itself—sublimely free,
Above the foes that in their weakness cower.
Shorn of its strength the human soul must be,
Ere overcome by truth’s worst enemy.