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The Task (1785)
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While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
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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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Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I,
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up!
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And Katerfelto, with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
'T is 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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Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.
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Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells
in heads replete with thoughts of other men,
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
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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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Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are disappointed.
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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free!
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick,
Whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.
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Detested sport
That owes its pleasures to another's pain;
That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks
Of harmless nature.
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So manifold, all pleasing in their kind,
All healthful, are the employs of rural life,
Reiterated as the wheel of time,
Runs round; still ending, and beginning still.
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But many a crime deem'd innocent on earth
Is register'd in Heaven; and these no doubt
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart,
But God will never.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
William Cowper
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Born:
November 26, 1731
Died:
April 25, 1800
(aged 68)
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