The Works of William Cowper Comprising his poems, correspondence, and translations. With a life of the author, by the editor, Robert Southey |
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A CARD.
Poor Vestris, grieved beyond all measure,To have incurred so much displeasure;
Although a Frenchman, disconcerted,
And though light heeled, yet heavy hearted,
Begs humbly to inform his friends,
Next first of April, he intends
To take a boat and row right down
To Cuckolds' point, from Richmond town;
And as he goes, alert and gay,
Leap all the bridges in his way
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Shall catch him safe on t'other side;
He humbly hopes by this expedient,
To prove himself their most obedient,
(Which shall be always his endeavour,)
And jump into their former favour.
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TO LADY AUSTEN.
To watch the storms, and hear the skyGive all our almanacks the lie;
To shake with cold, and see the plains
In autumn drown'd with wintry rains;
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And wish myself a Dutch Mynheer;
I then should have no need of wit,
For lumpish Hollander unfit.
Nor should I then repine at mud,
Or meadows deluged with a flood;
But in a bog live well content,
And find it just my element;
Should be a clod, and not a man,
Nor wish in vain for Sister Ann,
With charitable aid to drag
My mind out of its proper quag;
Should have the genius of a boor,
And no ambition to have more.
END OF VOL. IV.
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