DRAWN BY RICHARD WESTALL R.A. ENGRAVED BY JOHN ROMNEY: PUBLISHED BY JOHN SHARPE, PICCADILLY. AUG. 24. 1816. SAMSON, Attendant leading him. A LITTLE Onward lend thy guiding hand Unwholesome draught: but here I feel amends, Their superstition yields me; hence with leave Of both my parents all in flames ascended His godlike presence, and from some great act Design'd for great exploits; if I must die Betray'd, captived, and both my eyes put out, To grind in brazen fetters under task With this Heaven-gifted strength? O glorious strength, Had been fulfill'd but through mine own default, Who this high gift of strength committed to me, By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, Annull'd, which might in part my grief have ceased, Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me; |