O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERWhat peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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