Last Lines of William Cowper
A lesson for mankind.And bore the worthless prize away.And drought on all the drooping herbs around.And each by shrinking show'd he felt it.And heaven reflected in her face.And those of sorrows yet to come.Farewell! we meet no more?I sink the poet in the friend.I wish it all fulfill'd.May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.Neglected leaves a dreary waste behind.Of him that creeps and him that flies.Or all the toil is lost.Or soon expels him if it is.Resolves to have none of her own.Than to neglect a good adviser.The burning of his own.The honey on his tongue.The truth of a friend such as you.Then farewell British freedom.Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten.To Him who gives me all.With equal grace below.