Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
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Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch our country, and their shackles fall.William Cowper
The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enoughThe dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.
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Can a woman's tender care Cease towards the child she bare Yes, she may forgetful be, Yet will I remember thee.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia give the world repose
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