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Muse hide his name of whom I sing	A
Lest his surviving house thou bring	A
For his sake into scorn	B
Nor speak the school from which he drew	C
The much or little that he knew	C
Nor place where he was born	B
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That such a man once was may seem	D
Worthy of record if the theme	D
Perchance may credit win	E
For proof to man what man may prove	F
If grace depart and demons move	F
The source of guilt within	E
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This man for since the howling wild	G
Disclaims him man he must be styled	G
Wanted no good below	H
Gentle he was if gentle birth	I
Could make him such and he had worth	I
If wealth can worth bestow	H
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In social talk and ready jest	J
He shone superior at the feast	K
And qualities of mind	L
Illustrious in the eyes of those	M
Whose gay society he chose	M
Possessed of every kind	L
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Methinks I see him powdered red	N
With bushy locks his well dressed head	N
Winged broad on either side	O
The mossy rose bud not so sweet	P
His steeds superb his carriage neat	P
As luxury could provide	O
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Can such be cruel Such can be	Q
Cruel as hell and so was he	Q
A tyrant entertained	R
With barbarous sports whose fell delight	S
Was to encourage mortal fight	S
'Twixt birds to battle trained	R
	-
One feathered champion he possessed	J
His darling far beyond the rest	J
Which never knew disgrace	T
Nor e'er had fought but he made flow	H
The life blood of his fiercest foe	H
The Caesar of his race	T
	-
It chanced at last when on a day	U
He pushed him to the desperate fray	U
His courage drooped he fled	N
The master stormed the prize was lost	V
And instant frantic at the cost	W
He doomed his favourite dead	N
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He seized him fast and from the pit	X
Flew to the kitchen snatched the spit	X
And bring me cord he cried	O
The cord was brought and at his word	Y
To that dire implement the bird	Y
Alive and struggling tied	O
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The horrid sequel asks a veil	Z
And all the terrors of the tale	Z
That can be shall be sunk	A2
Led by the sufferer's screams aright	O
His shocked companions view the sight	O
And him with fury drunk	A2
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All suppliant beg a milder fate	O
For the old warrior at the grate	O
He deaf to pity's call	B2
Whirled round him rapid as a wheel	C2
His culinary club of steel	C2
Death menacing on all	B2
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But vengeance hung not far remote	O
For while he stretched his clamorous throat	O
And heaven and earth defied	O
Big with a curse too closely pent	O
That struggled vainly for a vent	O
He tottered reeled and died	O
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'Tis not for us with rash surmise	D2
To point the judgements of the skies	D2
But judgements plain as this	E2
That sent for a man's instruction bring	A
A written label on their wing	A
'Tis hard to read amiss	E2

William Cowper

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