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William Cowper - To The Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin

2014-11-10 10 Dailymotion

Unwin, I should but ill repay <br />The kindness of a friend, <br />Whose worth deserves as warm a lay <br />As ever friendship penned, <br />Thy name omitted in a page <br />That would reclaim a vicious age. <br /> <br />An union formed, as mine with thee, <br />Not rashly or in sport, <br />May be as fervent in degree, <br />And faithful in its sort, <br />And may as rich in comfort prove, <br />As that of true fraternal love. <br /> <br />The bud inserted in the rind, <br />The bud of peach or rose, <br />Adorns, though differing in its kind, <br />The stock whereon it grows <br />With flower as sweet or full as fair <br />As if produced by nature there. <br /> <br />Not rich, I render what I may, <br />I seize thy name in haste, <br />And place it in this first essay, <br />Lest this should prove the last. <br />'Tis where it should be, in a plan <br />That holds in view the good of man. <br /> <br />The poet's lyre, to fix his fame, <br />Should be the poet's heart; <br />Affection lights a brighter flame <br />Than ever blazed by art. <br />No muses on these lines attend <br />I sink the poet in the friend.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-rev-william-cawthorne-unwin/

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