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'Tis folly all let me no more be told	A
Of Parian porticos and roofs of gold	A
Delightful views of nature dressed by art	B
Enchant no longer this indifferent heart	B
The Lord of all things in his humble birth	C
Makes mean the proud magnificence of earth	C
The straw the manger and the mouldering wall	D
Eclipse its lustre and I scorn it all	D
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Canals and fountains and delicious vales	E
Green slopes and plains whose plenty never fails	E
Deep rooted groves whose heads sublimely rise	F
Earth born and yet ambitious of the skies	F
The abundant foliage of whose gloomy shades	G
Vainly the sun in all its power invades	G
Where warbled airs of sprightly birds resound	H
Whose verdure lives while Winter scowls around	H
Rocks lofty mountains caverns dark and deep	I
And torrents raving down the rugged steep	I
Smooth downs whose fragrant herbs the spirits cheer	J
Meads crowned with flowers streams musical and clear	J
Whose silver waters and whose murmurs join	K
Their artless charms to make the scene divine	L
The fruitful vineyard and the furrowed plain	M
That seems a rolling sea of golden grain	M
All all have lost the charms they once possessed	N
An infant God reigns sovereign in my breast	N
From Bethlehem's bosom I no more will rove	O
There dwells the Saviour and there rests my love	P
Ye mightier rivers that with sounding force	Q
Urge down the valleys your impetuous course	Q
Winds clouds and lightnings and ye waves whose heads	R
Curled into monstrous forms the seaman dreads	R
Horrid abyss where all experience fails	E
Spread with the wreck of planks and shattered sails	E
On whose broad back grim Death triumphant rides	S
While havoc floats on all thy swelling tides	S
Thy shores a scene of ruin strewed around	H
With vessels bulged and bodies of the drowned	H
Ye fish that sport beneath the boundless waves	T
And rest secure from man in rocky caves	T
Swift darting sharks and whales of hideous size	F
Whom all the aquatic world with terror eyes	F
Had I but faith immoveable and true	U
I might defy the fiercest storm like you	U
The world a more disturbed and boisterous sea	V
When Jesus shows a smile affrights not me	V
He hides me and in vain the billows roar	W
Break harmless at my feet and leave the shore	W
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Thou azure vault where through the gloom of night	X
Thick sown we see such countless worlds of light	X
Thou moon whose car encompassing the skies	F
Restores lost nature to our wondering eyes	F
Again retiring when the brighter sun	Y
Begins the course he seems in haste to run	Y
Behold him where he shines His rapid rays	Z
Themselves unmeasured measure all our days	Z
Nothing impedes the race he would pursue	U
Nothing escapes his penetrating view	U
A thousand lands confess his quickening heat	A2
And all he cheers are fruitful fair and sweet	A2
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Far from enjoying what these scenes disclose	B2
I feel the thorn alas but miss the rose	B2
Too well I know this aching heart requires	C2
More solid gold to fill its vast desires	C2
In vain they represent his matchless might	X
Who called them out of deep primeval night	X
Their form and beauty but augment my woe	D2
I seek the Giver of those charms they show	D2
Nor Him beside throughout the world he made	E2
Lives there in whom I trust for cure or aid	E2
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Infinite God thou great unrivalled One	Y
Whose glory makes a blot of yonder sun	Y
Compared with thine how dim his beauty seems	F2
How quenched the radiance of his golden beams	F2
Thou art my bliss the light by which I move	G2
In thee alone dwells all that I can love	P
All darkness flies when thou art pleased to appear	J
A sudden spring renews the fading year	J
Where'er I turn I see thy power and grace	H2
The watchful guardians of our heedless race	H2
Thy various creatures in one strain agree	V
All in all times and places speak of thee	V
E'en I with trembling heart and stammering tongue	I2
Attempt thy praise and join the general song	J2
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Almighty Former of this wondrous plan	K2
Faintly reflected in thine image man	K2
Holy and just the greatness of whose name	L2
Fills and supports this universal frame	L2
Diffused throughout the infinitude of space	H2
Who art thyself thine own vast dwelling place	H2
Soul of our soul whom yet no sense of ours	C2
Discerns eluding our most active powers	C2
Encircling shades attend thine awful throne	M2
That veil thy face and keep thee still unknown	M2
Unknown though dwelling in our inmost part	B
Lord of the thoughts and Sovereign of the heart	B
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Repeat the charming truth that never tires	C2
No God is like the God my soul desires	C2
He at whose voice heaven trembles even He	V
Great as he is knows how to stoop to me	V
Lo there he lies that smiling infant said	N2
'Heaven earth and sea exist ' and they obeyed	E2
E'en he whose being swells beyond the skies	F
Is born of woman lives and mourns and dies	F
Eternal and immortal seems to cast	O2
That glory from his brows and breathes his last	O2
Trivial and vain the works that man has wrought	P2
How do they shrink and vanish at the thought	P2
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Sweet solitude and scene of my repose	B2
This rustic sight assuages all my woes	B2
That crib contains the Lord whom I adore	W
And earth's a shade that I pursue no more	W
He is my firm support my rock my tower	Q2
I dwell secure beneath his sheltering power	Q2
And hold this mean retreat for ever dear	J
For all I love my soul's delight is here	R2
I see the Almighty swathed in infant bands	S2
Tied helpless down the thunder bearer's hands	S2
And in this shed that mystery discern	T2
Which faith and love and they alone can learn	T2
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Ye tempests spare the slumbers of your Lord	U2
Ye zephyrs all your whispered sweets afford	U2
Confess the God that guides the rolling year	J
Heaven do him homage and thou earth revere	J
Ye shepherds monarchs sages hither bring	V2
Your hearts an offering and adore your King	V2
Pure be those hearts and rich in faith and love	P
Join in his praise the harmonious world above	P
To Bethlehem haste rejoice in his repose	B2
And praise him there for all that he bestows	B2
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Man busy man alas can ill afford	U2
To obey the summons and attend the Lord	U2
Perverted reason revels and runs wild	W2
By glittering shows of pomp and wealth beguiled	W2
And blind to genuine excellence and grace	H2
Finds not her author in so mean a place	H2
Ye unbelieving learn a wiser part	B
Distrust your erring sense and search your heart	B
There soon ye shall perceive a kindling flame	L2
Glow for that infant God from whom it came	L2
Resist not quench not that divine desire	Q2
Melt all your adamant in heavenly fire	Q2
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Not so will I requite thee gentle love	P
Yielding and soft this heart shall ever prove	G2
And every heart beneath thy power should fall	D
Glad to submit could mine contain them all	D
But I am poor oblation I have none	Y
None for a Saviour but himself alone	M2
Whate'er I render thee from thee it came	L2
And if I give my body to the flame	L2
My patience love and energy divine	L
Of heart and soul and spirit all are thine	L
Ah vain attempt to expunge the mighty score	W
The more I pay I owe thee still the more	W
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Upon my meanness poverty and guilt	X2
The trophy of thy glory shall be built	X2
My self disdain shall be the unshaken base	H2
And my deformity its fairest grace	H2
For destitute of good and rich in ill	Y2
Must be my state and my description still	Y2
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And do I grieve at such an humbling lot	Z2
Nay but I cherish and enjoy the thought	P2
Vain pageantry and pomp of earth adieu	U
I have no wish no memory for you	U
The more I feel my misery I adore	W
The sacred inmate of my soul the more	W
Rich in his love I feel my noblest pride	A3
Spring from the sense of having nought beside	A3
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In thee I find wealth comfort virtue might	X
My wanderings prove thy wisdom infinite	B3
All that I have I give thee and then see	V
All contrarieties unite in thee	V
For thou hast joined them taking up our woe	D2
And pouring out thy bliss on worms below	D2
By filling with thy grace and love divine	L
A gulf of evil in this heart of	P

William Cowper

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