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William Cowper. (1731–1800) (continued)

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Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.

The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 510.

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Those golden times
And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,
And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.

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The Frenchman’s darling. 1

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Some must be great. Great offices will have
Great talents. And God gives to every man
The virtue, temper, understanding, taste,
That lifts him into life, and lets him fall
Just in the niche he was ordain’d to fill.

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Silently as a dream the fabric rose,
No sound of hammer or of saw was there. 2

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But war ’s a game which were their subjects wise
Kings would not play at.

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The beggarly last doit.

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As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.

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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.

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With filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, My Father made them all!

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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased

Note 1.
It was Cowper who gave this now common name to the mignonette. [back]

Note 2.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Reginald Heber: Palestine.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building.—1 Kings vi. 7. [back]

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