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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
Hymnwriter
Poet
Poet Lawyer
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
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Life

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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
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Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
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Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
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An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
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Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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The solemn fop significant and budge A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
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Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
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How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
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When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.
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