Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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Says John, It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.William Cowper
To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair.
William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to the last retreat.
William Cowper
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
William Cowper
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