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An Oyster cast upon the shore	A
Was heard though never heard before	A
Complaining in a speech well worded	B
And worthy thus to be recorded	C
Ah hapless wretch condemn d to dwell	D
For ever in my native shell	D
Ordain'd to move when others please	E
Not for my own content or ease	E
But toss d and buffeted about	F
Now in the water and now out	F
'Twere better to be born a stone	G
Of ruder shape and feeling none	H
Than with a tenderness like mine	I
And sensibilities so fine	I
I envy that unfeeling shrub	J
Fast rooted against every rub	J
The plant he meant grew not far off	K
And felt the sneer with scorn enough	L
Was hurt disgusted mortified	M
And with asperity replied	M
When cry the botanists and stare	N
Did plants call'd sensitive grow there	N
No matter when a poet's muse is	O
To make them grow just where she chooses	P
You shapeless nothing in a dish	Q
You that are but almost a fish	Q
I scorn your coarse insinuation	H
And have most plentiful occasion	H
To wish myself the rock I view	R
Or such another dolt as you	R
For many a grave and learned clerk	S
And many a gay unletter'd spark	T
With curious touch examines me	U
If I can feel as well as he	U
And when I bend retire and shrink	V
Says Well 'tis more than one would think	V
Thus life is spent oh fie upon't	U
In being touch'd and crying Don t	U
A poet in his evening walk	W
O erheard and check'd this idle talk	W
And your fine sense he said and yours	X
Whatever evil it endures	X
Deserves not if so soon offended	C
Much to be pitied or commended	B
Disputes though short are far too long	Y
Where both alike are in the wrong	Y
Your feelings in their full amount	Z
Are all upon your own account	Z
You in your grotto work enclosed	A2
Complain of being thus exposed	A2
Yet nothing feel in that rough coat	B2
Save when the knife is at your throat	B2
Wherever driven by wind or tide	M
Exempt from every ill beside	M
And as for you my Lady Squeamish	Q
Who reckon every touch a blemish	Q
If all the plants that can be found	C2
Embellishing the scene around	C2
Should droop and wither where they grow	D2
You would not feel at all not you	R
The noblest minds their virtue prove	E2
By pity sympathy and love	F2
These these are feelings truly fine	I
And prove their owner half divine	I
His censure reach d them as he dealt it	G2
And each by shrinking show d he felt it	G2

William Cowper

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