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Fairest and foremost of the train that wait	A
On man's most dignified and happiest state	A
Whether we name thee Charity or Love	B
Chief grace below and all in all above	B
Prosper I press thee with a powerful plea	C
A task I venture on impell d by thee	C
Oh never seen but in thy blest effects	D
Or felt but in the soul that Heaven selects	D
Who seeks to praise thee and to make thee known	E
To other hearts must have thee in his own	E
Come prompt me with benevolent desires	F
Teach me to kindle at thy gentle fires	F
And though disgraced and slighted to redeem	G
A poet s name by making thee the theme	G
God working ever on a social plan	H
By various ties attaches man to man	H
He made at first though free and unconfined	I
One man the common father of the kind	I
That every tribe though placed as he sees best	J
Where seas or deserts part them from the rest	J
Differing in language manners or in face	K
Might feel themselves allied to all the race	K
When Cook lamented and with tears as just	L
As ever mingled with heroic dust	L
Steer d Britain s oak into a world unknown	E
And in his country s glory sought his own	E
Wherever he found man to nature true	M
The rights of man were sacred in his view	M
He soothed with gifts and greeted with a smile	N
The simple native of the new found isle	N
He spurn d the wretch that slighted or withstood	O
The tender argument of kindred blood	P
Nor would endure that any should control	Q
His freeborn brethren of the southern pole	Q
But though some nobler minds a law respect	R
That none shall with impunity neglect	R
In baser souls unnumber d evils meet	S
To thwart its influence and its end defeat	S
While Cook is loved for savage lives he saved	T
See Cortez odious for a world enslaved	T
Where wast thou then sweet Charity where then	U
Thou tutelary friend of helpless men	U
Wast thou in monkish cells and nunneries found	V
Or building hospitals on English ground	V
No Mammon makes the world his legatee	V
Through fear not love and Heaven abhors the fee	C
Wherever found and all men need thy care	W
Nor age nor infancy could find thee there	W
The hand that slew till it could slay no more	X
Was glued to the sword hilt with Indian gore	X
Their prince as justly seated on his throne	E
As vain imperial Philip on his own	E
Trick d out of all his royalty by art	V
That stripp d him bare and broke his honest heart	V
Died by the sentence of a shaven priest	V
For scorning what they taught him to detest	V
How dark the veil that intercepts the blaze	Y
Of Heaven s mysterious purposes and ways	Y
God stood not though he seem d to stand aloof	Z
And at this hour the conqueror feels the proof	Z
The wreath he won drew down an instant curse	A2
The fretting plague is in the public purse	A2
The canker d spoil corrodes the pining state	V
Starved by that indolence their mines create	V
Oh could their ancient Incas rise again	U
How would they take up Israel s taunting strain	B2
Art thou too fallen Iberia Do we see	C
The robber and the murderer weak as we	C
Thou that hast wasted earth and dared despise	C2
Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies	C2
Thy pomp is in the grave thy glory laid	V
Low in the pits thine avarice has made	V
We come with joy from our eternal rest	V
To see the oppressor in his turn oppress d	C
Art thou the god the thunder of whose hand	V
Roll d over all our desolated land	V
Shook principalities and kingdoms down	D2
And made the mountains tremble at his frown	D2
The sword shall light upon thy boasted powers	F
And waste them as thy sword has wasted ours	F
Tis thus Omnipotence his law fulfils	F
And vengeance executes what justice wills	F
Again the band of commerce was design d	C
To associate all the branches of mankind	V
And if a boundless plenty be the robe	E2
Trade is the golden girdle of the globe	E2
Wise to promote whatever end he means	F
God opens fruitful Nature s various scenes	F
Each climate needs what other climes produce	F
And offers something to the general use	F
No land but listens to the common call	F2
And in return receives supply from all	F2
This genial intercourse and mutual aid	V
Cheers what were else a universal shade	V
Calls nature from her ivy mantled den	U
And softens human rock work into men	U
Ingenious Art with her expressive face	F
Steps forth to fashion and refine the race	F
Not only fills necessity s demand	V
But overcharges her capacious hand	V
Capricious taste itself can crave no more	X
Than she supplies from her abounding store	X
She strikes out all that luxury can ask	G2
And gains new vigour at her endless task	G2
Hers is the spacious arch the shapely spire	H2
The painter s pencil and the poet s lyre	H2
From her the canvas borrows light and shade	V
And verse more lasting hues that never fade	V
She guides the finger o er the dancing keys	F
Gives difficulty all the grace of ease	F
And pours a torrent of sweet notes around	V
Fast as the thirsting ear can drink the sound	V
These are the gifts of art and art thrives most	V
Where Commerce has enrich d the busy coast	V
He catches all improvements in his flight	V
Spreads foreign wonders in his country s sight	V
Imports what others have invented well	I2
And stirs his own to match them or excel	I2
Tis thus reciprocating each with each	J2
Alternately the nations learn and teach	J2
While Providence enjoins to ev ry soul	Q
A union with the vast terraqueous whole	Q
Heaven speed the canvas gallantly unfurl d	C
To furnish and accommodate a world	V
To give the pole the produce of the sun	K2
And knit the unsocial climates into one	K2
Soft airs and gentle heavings of the wave	L2
Impel the fleet whose errand is to save	L2
To succour wasted regions and replace	F
The smile of opulence in sorrow s face	F
Let nothing adverse nothing unforeseen	M2
Impede the bark that ploughs the deep serene	M2
Charged with a freight transcending in its worth	N2
The gems of India Nature s rarest birth	N2
That flies like Gabriel on his Lord s commands	F
A herald of God s love to pagan lands	F
But ah what wish can prosper or what prayer	W
For merchants rich in cargoes of despair	W
Who drive a loathsome traffic gauge and span	H
And buy the muscles and the bones of man	H
The tender ties of father husband friend	V
All bonds of nature in that moment end	V
And each endures while yet he draws his breath	O2
A stroke as fatal as the scythe of death	O2
The sable warrior frantic with regret	V
Of her he loves and never can forget	V
Loses in tears the far receding shore	X
But not the thought that they must meet no more	X
Deprived of her and freedom at a blow	P2
What has he left that he can yet forego	P2
Yes to deep sadness sullenly resign d	C
He feels his body s bondage in his mind	V
Puts off his generous nature and to suit	V
His manners with his fate puts on the brute	V
Oh most degrading of all ills that wait	V
On man a mourner in his best estate	V
All other sorrows virtue may endure	Q2
And find submission more than half a cure	Q2
Grief is itself a medicine and bestow d	C
To improve the fortitude that bears the load	V
To teach the wanderer as his woes increase	F
The path of wisdom all whose paths are peace	F
But slavery Virtue dreads it as her grave	L2
Patience itself is meanness in a slave	L2
Or if the will and sovereignty of God	V
Bid suffer it a while and kiss the rod	V
Wait for the dawning of a brighter day	V
And snap the chain the moment when you may	V
Nature imprints upon whate er we see	C
That has a heart and life in it Be free	C
The beasts are charter d neither age nor force	F
Can quell the love of freedom in a horse	F
He breaks the cord that held him at the rack	R2
And conscious of an unencumber d back	R2
Snuffs up the morning air forgets the rein	B2
Loose fly his forelock and his ample mane	B2
Responsive to the distant neigh he neighs	F
Nor stops till overleaping all delays	F
He finds the pasture where his fellows graze	F
Canst thou and honour d with a Christian name	S2
Buy what is woman born and feel no shame	S2
Trade i	T2

William Cowper

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