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Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

William Cowper

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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
Hymnwriter
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
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Religion
Untold
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Heavenly
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
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Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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