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Survivor sole and hardly such of all	A
That once lived here thy brethren at my birth	B
Since which I number threescore winters past	C
A shatter'd veteran hollow trunk'd perhaps	D
As now and with excoriate forks deform	E
Relics of ages could a mind imbued	F
With truth from heaven created thing adore	G
I might with reverence kneel and worship thee	H
It seems idolatry with some excuse	I
When our forefather druids in their oaks	J
Imagined sanctity The conscience yet	K
Unpurified by an authentic act	L
Of amnesty the meed of blood divine	M
Loved not the light but gloomy into gloom	N
Of thickest shades like Adam after taste	O
Of fruit proscribed as to a refuge fled	P
Thou wast a bauble once a cup and ball	A
Which babes might play with and the thievish jay	Q
Seeking her food with ease might have purloin'd	R
The auburn nut that held thee swallowing down	S
Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs	T
And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp	U
But fate thy growth decreed autumnal rains	V
Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil	W
Design'd thy cradle and a skipping deer	X
With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe prepared	Y
The soft receptacle in which secure	Z
Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through	A2
So fancy dreams Disprove it if you can	B2
Ye reasoners broad awake whose busy search	C2
Of argument employ'd too oft amiss	D2
Sifts half the pleasures of short life away	Q
Thou fell'st mature and in the loamy clod	Y
Swelling with vegetative force instinct	Y
Didst burst thine egg as theirs the fabled twins	E2
Now stars two lobes protruding pair'd exact	Y
A leaf succeeded and another leaf	F2
And all the elements thy puny growth	G2
Fostering propitious thou becamest a twig	H2
Who lived when thou wast such Oh could'st thou speak	I2
As in Dodona once thy kindred trees	J2
Oracular I would not curious ask	K2
The future best unknown but at thy mouth	L2
Inquisitive the less ambiguous past	Y
By thee I might correct erroneous oft	Y
The clock of history facts and events	M2
Timing more punctual unrecorded facts	N2
Recovering and misstated setting right	Y
Desperate attempt till trees shall speak again	O2
Time made thee what thou wast king of the woods	P2
And time hath made thee what thou art a cave	Q2
For owls to roost in Once thy spreading boughs	T
O'erhung the champaign and the numerous flocks	R2
That grazed it stood beneath that ample cope	S2
Uncrowded yet safe shelter'd from the storm	E
No flock frequents thee now Thou hast outlived	Y
Thy popularity and art become	T2
Unless verse rescue thee awhile a thing	U2
Forgotten as the foliage of thy youth	V2
While thus through all the stages thou hast push'd	Y
Of treeship first a seedling hid in grass	W2
Then twig then sapling and as century roll'd	Y
Slow after century a giant bulk	X2
Of girth enormous with moss cushion'd root	Y
Upheaved above the soil and sides emboss'd	Y
With prominent wens globose till at the last	Y
The rottenness which time is charged to inflict	Y
On other mighty ones found also thee	H
What exhibitions various hath the world	Y
Witness'd of mutability in all	A
That we account most durable below	Y2
Change is the diet on which all subsist	Y
Created changeable and change at last	Y
Destroys them Skies uncertain now the heat	Y
Transmitting cloudless and the solar beam	Z2
Now quenching in a boundless sea of clouds	A3
Calm and alternate storm moisture and drought	Y
Invigorate by turns the springs of life	B3
In all that live plant animal and man	B2
And in conclusion mar them Nature's threads	C3
Fine passing thought e'en in their coarsest works	D3
Delight in agitation yet sustain	E3
The force that agitates not unimpair'd	Y
But worn by frequent impulse to the cause	F3
Of their best tone their dissolution owe	Y2
Thought cannot spend itself comparing still	G3
The great and little of thy lot thy growth	G2
From almost nullity into a state	Y
Of matchless grandeur and declension thence	H3
Slow into such magnificent decay	Q
Time was when settling on thy leaf a fly	I3
Could shake thee to the root and time has been	J3
When tempests could not At thy firmest age	K3
Thou hadst within thy bole solid contents	M2
That might have ribb'd the sides and plank'd the deck	L3
Of some flagg'd admiral and tortuous arms	M3
The shipwright's darling treasure didst present	Y
To the four quarter'd winds robust and bold	Y
Warp'd into tough knee timber many a load	Y
But the axe spared thee In those thriftier days	N3
Oaks fell not hewn by thousands to supply	I3
The bottomless demands of contest waged	Y
For senatorial honours Thus to time	O3
The task was left to whittle thee away	Q
With his sly scythe whose ever nibbling edge	P3
Noiseless an atom and an atom more	G
Disjoining from the rest has unobserved	Y
Achieved a labour which had far and wide	Y
By man perform'd made all the forest ring	U2
Embowell'd now and of thy ancient self	Q3
Possessing nought but the scoop'd rind that seems	R3
A huge throat calling to the clouds for drink	S3
Which it would give in rivulets to thy root	Y
Thou temptest none but rather much forbidd'st	Y
The feller's toil which thou couldst ill requite	Y
Yet is thy root sincere sound as the rock	T3
A quarry of stout spurs and knotted fangs	U3
Which crook'd into a thousand whimsies clasp	V3
The stubborn soil and hold thee still erect	Y
So stands a kingdom whose foundation yet	Y
Fails not in virtue and in wisdom laid	Y
Though all the superstructure by the tooth	V2
Pulverized of venality a shell	W3
Stands now and semblance only of itself	Q3
Thine arms have left thee Winds have rent them off	X3
Long since and rovers of the forest wild	Y
With bow and shaft have burnt them Some have left	Y
A splinter'd stump bleach'd to a snowy white	Y
And some memorial none where once they grew	A2
Yet life still lingers in thee and puts forth	Y3
Proof not contemptible of what she can	B2
Even where death predominates The spring	U2
Finds thee not less alive to her sweet force	Z3
Than yonder upstarts of the neighbouring wood	Y
So much thy juniors who their birth received	Y
Half a millennium since the date of thine	M
But since although well qualified by age	K3
To teach no spirit dwells in thee nor voice	A4
May be expected from thee seated here	B4
On thy distorted root with hearers none	C4
Or prompter save the scene I will perform	E
Myself the oracle and will discourse	Z3
In my own ear such matter as I may	Q
One man alone the father of us all	A
Drew not his life from woman never gazed	Y
With mute unconsciousness of what he saw	D4
On all around him learn'd not by degrees	J2
Nor owed articulation to his ear	B4
But moulded by his Maker into man	B2
At once upstood intelligent survey'd	Y
All creatures with precision understood	Y
Their purport uses properties assign'd	Y
To each his name significant and fill'd	Y
With love and wisdom render'd back to Heaven	C4
In praise harmonious the first air he drew	A2
He was excused the penalties of dull	E4
Minority No tutor charged his hand	Y
With the thought tracing quill or task'd his mind	Y
With problems History not wanted yet	Y
Lean'd on her elbow watching time whose course	Z3
Eventful should supply her with a theme	Z2

William Cowper

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