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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

William Cowper

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPER

Labor Much Pleasure Tire Tries
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPER

Game King Ply Subject War Wise
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPER

Blessing Cloud Courage Fearful Saint Take
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPER

Attentive Head Knowledge Men Own Repeat Thought Widsom
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Country Fault Love May Mind Still
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPER

Console Pain Pleasure String Vices Virtue
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPER

Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bless Cease Continue Enemies Friend Pray Such
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

Blind God Interpreter Make Mysterious Vain Ways Work
Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPER

Daughter Eye Nature Send Sky Truth
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
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER

Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
WILLIAM COWPER

Care Done Lying Most Night Safely Tomorrow Trouble
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPER

Empty Man Patriot Political Politics Stomach
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPER

Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER

Beach God Moving Mysterious Perform Wonder

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

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