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Sun stay thy course this moment stay	A
Suspend the o'er flowing tide of day	A
Divulge not such a love as mine	B
Ah hide the mystery divine	B
Lest man who deems my glory shame	C
Should learn the secret of my flame	C
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O night propitious to my views	D
Thy sable awning wide diffuse	E
Conceal alike my joy and pain	F
Nor draw thy curtain back again	G
Though morning by the tears she shows	H
Seems to participate my woes	H
	-
Ye stars whose faint and feeble fires	I
Express my languishing desires	I
Whose slender beams pervade the skies	J
As silent as my secret sighs	J
Those emanations of a soul	K
That darts her fires beyond the Pole	K
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Your rays that scarce assist the sight	L
That pierce but not displace the night	L
That shine indeed but nothing shew	M
Of all those various scenes below	N
Bring no disturbance rather prove	O
Incentives to a sacred love	P
	-
Thou moon whose never failing course	Q
Bespeaks a providential force	Q
Go tell the tidings of my flame	C
To Him who calls the stars by name	C
Whose absence kills whose presence cheers	R
Who blots or brightens all my years	R
	-
While in the blue abyss of space	S
Thine orb performs its rapid race	S
Still whisper in his listening ears	R
The language of my sighs and tears	T
Tell him I seek him far below	N
Lost in a wilderness of woe	N
	-
Ye thought composing silent hours	I
Diffusing peace o'er all my powers	I
Friends of the pensive who conceal	U
In darkest shades the flames I feel	U
To you I trust and safely may	A
The love that wastes my strength away	A
	-
In sylvan scenes and caverns rude	V
I taste the sweets of solitude	V
Retired indeed but not alone	W
I share them with a spouse unknown	W
Who hides me here from envious eyes	J
From all intrusion and surprise	J
	-
Imbowering shades and dens profound	X
Where echo rolls the voice around	X
Mountains whose elevated heads	Y
A moist and misty veil o'erspreads	Y
Disclose a solitary bride	Z
To him I love to none beside	Z
	-
Ye rills that murmuring all the way	A
Among the polished pebbles stray	A
Creep silently along the ground	X
Lest drawn by that harmonious sound	X
Some wanderer whom I would not meet	A2
Should stumble on my loved retreat	A2
	-
Enamelled meads and hillocks green	B2
And streams that water all the scene	B2
Ye torrents loud in distant ears	Y
Ye fountains that receive my tears	Y
Ah still conceal with caution due	M
A charge I trust with none but you	M
	-
If when my pain and grief increase	Y
I seem to enjoy the sweetest peace	Y
It is because I find so fair	C2
The charming object of my care	C2
That I can sport and pleasure make	D2
Of torment suffered for his sake	D2
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Ye meads and groves unconscious things	Y
Ye know not whence my pleasure springs	Y
Ye know not and ye cannot know	N
The source from which my sorrows flow	N
The dear sole cause of all I feel	U
He knows and understands them well	E2
	-
Ye deserts where the wild beasts rove	F2
Scenes sacred to my hours of love	P
Ye forests in whose shades I stray	A
Benighted under burning day	A
Ah whisper not how blest am I	G2
Nor while I live nor when I die	G2
	-
Ye lambs who sport beneath these shades	Y
And bound along the mossy glades	Y
Be taught a salutary fear	H2
And cease to bleat when I am near	H2
The wolf may hear your harmless cry	G2
Whom ye should dread as much as I	G2
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How calm amid these scenes my mind	I2
How perfect is the peace I find	I2
Oh hush be still my every part	J2
My tongue my pulse my beating heart	J2
That love aspiring to its cause	Y
May suffer not a moment's pause	Y
	-
Ye swift finned nations that abide	Z
In seas as fathomless as wide	Z
And unsuspicious of a snare	C2
Pursue at large your pleasures there	C2
Poor sportive fools how soon does man	K2
Your heedless ignorance trepan	K2
	-
Away dive deep into the brine	K2
Where never yet sunk plummet line	K2
Trust me the vast leviathan	K2
Is merciful compared with man	K2
Avoid his arts forsake the beach	L2
And never play within his reach	L2
	-
My soul her bondage ill endures	Y
I pant for liberty like yours	Y
I long for that immense profound	X
That knows no bottom and no bound	X
Lost in infinity to prove	O
The incomprehensible of love	P
	-
Ye birds that lessen as ye fly	G2
And vanish in the distant sky	G2
To whom yon airy waste belongs	Y
Resounding with your cheerful songs	Y
Haste to escape from human sight	L
Fear less the vulture and the kite	L
	-
How blest and how secure am I	G2
When quitting earth I soar on high	G2
When lost like you I disappear	H2
And float in a sublimer sphere	H2
Whence falling within human view	M
I am ensnared and caught like you	M
	-
Omniscient God whose notice deigns	Y
To try the heart and search the reins	Y
Compassionate the numerous woes	Y
I dare not e'en to thee disclose	Y
O save me from the cruel hands	Y
Of men who fear not thy commands	Y
	-
Love all subduing and divine	K2
Care for a creature truly thine	K2
Reign in a heart disposed to own	K2
No sovereign but thyself alone	K2
Cherish a bride who cannot rove	F2
Nor quit thee for a meaner love	P

William Cowper

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