HERE Latimer and Ridley in the flames Bore witness to the truth. If thou hast walk'd Uprightly through the world, proud thoughts of joy Will fill thy breast in contemplating here Congenial virtue. But if thou hast swerved From the right path, if thou hast sold thy soul And served, a hireling, with apostate zeal, The cause thy heart disowns, oh! cherish well The honourable shame that sure this place Will wake within thee, timely penitent, And let the future expiate the past. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY by ROBERT AYTON INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE] by GEORGE HERBERT BROODING GRIEF by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE ARMS AND THE BOY by WILFRED OWEN |