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I suffer fruitless anguish day by day	A
Each moment as it passes marks my pain	B
Scarce knowing whither doubtfully I stray	A
And see no end of all that I sustain	B
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The more I strive the more I am withstood	C
Anxiety increasing every hour	D
My spirit finds no rest performs no good	C
And nought remains of all my former power	D
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My peace of heart is fled I know not where	E
My happy hours like shadows passed away	A
Their sweet remembrance doubles all my care	E
Night darker seems succeeding such a day	A
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Dear faded joys and impotent regret	F
What profit is there in incessant tears	G
Oh thou whom once beheld we ne'er forget	F
Reveal thy love and banish all my fears	H
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Alas he flies me treats me as his foe	I
Views not my sorrows hears not when I plead	J
Woe such as mine despised neglected woe	I
Unless it shortens life is vain indeed	J
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Pierced with a thousand wounds I yet survive	K
My pangs are keen but no complaint transpires	L
And while in terrors of thy wrath I live	K
Hell seems to loose it less tremendous fires	L
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Has hell a pain I would not gladly bear	E
So thy severe displeasure might subside	M
Hopeless of ease I seem already there	E
My life extinguished and yet death denied	M
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Is this the joy so promised this the love	N
The unchanging love so sworn in better days	O
Ah dangerous glories shewn me but to prove	P
How lovely thou and I how rash to gaze	O
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Why did I see them had I still remained	Q
Untaught still ignorant how fair thou art	R
My humbler wishes I had soon obtained	Q
Nor known the torments of a doubting heart	R
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Deprived of all yet feeling no desires	L
Whence then I cry the pangs that I sustain	B
Dubious and uninformed my soul inquires	L
Ought she to cherish or shake off her pain	B
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Suffering I suffer not sincerely love	N
Yet feel no touch of that enlivening flame	S
As chance inclines me unconcerned I move	P
All times and all events to me the same	S
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I search my heart and not a wish is there	E
But burns with zeal that hated self may fall	T
Such is the sad disquietude I share	E
A sea of doubts and self the source of all	T
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I ask not life nor do I wish to die	U
And if thine hand accomplish not my cure	V
I would not purchase with a single sigh	U
A free discharge from all that I endure	V
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I groan in chains yet want not a release	W
Am sick and know not the distempered part	R
Am just as void of purpose as of peace	W
Have neither plan nor fear nor hope nor heart	R
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My claim to life though sought with earnest care	E
No light within me or without me shews	W
Once I had faith but now in self despair	E
Find my chief cordial and my best repose	W
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My soul is a forgotten thing she sinks	W
Sinks and is lost without a wish to rise	W
Feels an indifference she abhors and thinks	W
Her name erased for ever from the skies	W
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Language affords not my distress a name	S
Yet it is real and no sickly dream	X
'Tis love inflicts it though to feel that flame	S
Is all I know of happiness supreme	X
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When love departs a chaos wide and vast	Y
And dark as hell is opened in the soul	Z
When love returns the gloomy scene is past	Y
No tempests shake her and no fears control	Z
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Then tell me why these ages of delay	A
Oh love all excellent once more appear	A2
Disperse the shades and snatch me into day	A
From this abyss of night these floods of fear	A2
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No love is angry will not now endure	V
A sigh of mine or suffer a complaint	B2
He smites me wounds me and withholds the cure	V
Exhausts my powers and leaves me sick and faint	B2
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He wounds and hides the hand that gave the blow	I
He flies he re appears and wounds again	C2
Was ever heart that loved thee treated so	I
Yet I adore thee though it seem in vain	B
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And wilt thou leave me whom when lost and blind	D2
Thou didst distinguish and vouchsafe to choose	W
Before thy laws were written in my mind	D2
While yet the world had all my thoughts and views	W
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Now leave me when enamoured of thy laws	W
I make thy glory my supreme delight	E2
Now blot me from thy register and cause	W
A faithful soul to perish from thy sight	E2
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What can have caused the change which I deplore	F2
Is it to prove me if my heart be true	G2
Permit me then while prostrate I adore	F2
To draw and place its picture in thy view	G2
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'Tis thine without reserve most simply thine	H2
So given to thee that it is not my own	I2
A willing captive of thy grace divine	H2
And loves and seeks thee for thyself alone	I2
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Pain cannot move it danger cannot scare	E
Pleasure and wealth in its esteem are dust	J2
It loves thee e'en when least inclined to spare	E
Its tenderest feelings and avows thee just	J2
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'Tis all thine own my spirit is so too	G2
An undivided offering at thy shrine	H2
It seeks thy glory with no double view	G2
Thy glory with no secret bent to mine	H2
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Love holy love and art thou not severe	A2
To slight me thus devoted and thus fixed	K2
Mine is an everlasting ardour clear	A2
From all self bias generous and unmixed	K2
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But I am silent seeing what I see	W
And fear with cause that I am self deceived	L2
Not e'en my faith is from suspicion free	W
And that I love seems not to be believed	L2
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Live thou and reign for ever glorious Lord	M2
My last least offering I present thee now	N2
Renounce me leave me and be still adored	M2
Slay me my God and I applaud the blow	I

William Cowper

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