Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Remorse begets reform.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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