intrench'd

Updated: June 22, 2025

"Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and care Sat on his faded cheek ..." add two such lines as "And courage never to submit or yield And what is else not to be overcome ..." and finish with the exquisite close to the loss of Proserpine, the loss " ... which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world."

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold