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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
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Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Thieves at home must hang but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.
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My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
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Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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