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Freedom has a thousand charms to show , That slaves , howe'er contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth that nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening , and ...
Freedom has a thousand charms to show , That slaves , howe'er contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth that nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening , and ...
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When tumult lately burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a roar ; When he usurped authority's just place , And dared to look his inaster in the face ; When the rude rabble's watch - word was --- destroy , And blazing ...
When tumult lately burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a roar ; When he usurped authority's just place , And dared to look his inaster in the face ; When the rude rabble's watch - word was --- destroy , And blazing ...
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They trust in navies , and their navies fail-God's curse can cast away ten thousand sail ! They trust in armies , and their courage dies ; In wisdom , wealth , in fortune , and in lies ; But all they trust in withers , as it must ...
They trust in navies , and their navies fail-God's curse can cast away ten thousand sail ! They trust in armies , and their courage dies ; In wisdom , wealth , in fortune , and in lies ; But all they trust in withers , as it must ...
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... Spreads the fresh verdure of the fields , and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads ; She fills profuse ten thousand little throats With music , modulating all their notes ; And charms the woodland scenes ...
... Spreads the fresh verdure of the fields , and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads ; She fills profuse ten thousand little throats With music , modulating all their notes ; And charms the woodland scenes ...
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The breach , though small at first , soon opening wide , In rushes folly with a full - moon tide ; Then welcome errors , of whatever size , To justify it by a thousand lies . As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin ...
The breach , though small at first , soon opening wide , In rushes folly with a full - moon tide ; Then welcome errors , of whatever size , To justify it by a thousand lies . As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin ...
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| Title | Poems, Volume 1 Poems, William Cowper Poems. by William Cowper. With the life of the author by T. Greatheed, William Cowper |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Publisher | W. Wilson, 1821 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
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