Maxioms by William Cowper
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
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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.
How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at interval upon the ear
In cadence sweet; read more
How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at interval upon the ear
In cadence sweet; now dying all away,
Now pealing loud again, and louder still,
Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on!
With easy force it opens all the cells
Where Memory slept.
