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Title: The poetical works of William Cowper. Complete edition, with memoir, explanatory notes, &c. ..
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Cowper, William, 1731-1800
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Publisher: London, F. Warne and co. New York, Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sully and eclipseThe charms of nature. ?Tis the cruel gripeThat lean hard-handed Poverty inflicts,The ho)3e of better things, the chance to win,# The wish to shine, the thirst to be amused, That at the sound of Winters hoary wing,Unpeople all our counties, of such herdsOf fluttering, loitering, cringing, begging, looseAnd wanton vagrants, as make London, vastAnd boundless as it is, a crowded coop. Oh thou, rerort and mart of all the earth,Chequerd with all complexions of mankind,And spotted with all crimes ; in which I seeMuch that I love, and more that I admire,And all that I abhor; thou freckled fair,That pleases and yet shocks me, I can laughAnd I can weep, can hope and can despoud,Feel wrath and pity, when I think on thee !Ten righteous would have saved a city once,And thou hast many righteous.—Well for theeThat salt preserves thee ; more corrupted else,And therefore more, obnoxious at this hour,Than Sodom in her day had power to be,For whom God heard his Abraham plead in vain.
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Hark! t is the twanging horn ! Oer yonder bridge,That with its wearisome but needful lengthBestrides the wintry flood, in which the moonSees her unwrinkled face reflected bright,He comes, the herald of a noisy world. The Task—The Winter Evening TILE TASK—THE WINTER EVENING. 273 BOOK IV.—THE WINTER EVENING. ARGUMENT. .: o post comes in—The newspaper is read—The world contemplated at a distance—Address to winter—The rural amusements of a winter evening compared with thefashionable ones—Address to evening—A brown study—Fall of snow in the evening—The waggoner—A poor family piece—The rural thief—Public-houses—The multi-tude of them censured—The farmers daughter: what she was ; what she is—Thesimplicity of country manners almost lost—Causes of the change—Desertion of thecountry by the rich—Neglect of magistrates—The militia principally in fault—Thenew recruit and his transformation—Reflection on bodies corporate—The love ofrural objects natur

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