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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

William Cowper

He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
WILLIAM COWPER

Color Enforce Fellow Find Guilty Power Skin Slavery Wrong
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
WILLIAM COWPER

Cheer Column Cup Each Evening Preach Steamy Welcome
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
WILLIAM COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPER

Evening Let Night Peaceful Welcome
Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER

Flavor Giving Inspire Life Spice Variety
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPER

Pass Sound Swift Time Unsound Wing
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
WILLIAM COWPER

Feeble Grace Judging Lord People Person Sweet
After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPER

Abundant After Drought Fall Flower Herb Long Rain Rejoice
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
WILLIAM COWPER

Assurance Believe Even Happy Heard Make Petition Prayer Proof
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bitter Bud God Interpreter Olan Sweet Taste Unbelief Vain Will
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
WILLIAM COWPER

Ceaseless Corrosion Divide Joy Know May Passionate Temper
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPER

Attachment Home Known Life Place Race Start
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPER

Exhilarate Languid Music Nature Rural Sight Silence Tone
I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
WILLIAM COWPER

Humanity Journey Music Reach Speech Sweet
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPER

Another Detect Hunting Owe Pain Sport
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPER

Built Church God Laugh Scorn

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

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