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My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

William Cowper
Sick, Soul, Earth
William Cowper (1855). “Thoughts on War and Warriors; extracted from the poetical writings of William Cowper”, p.15

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

William Cowper
Atheist, Easter, Earth
William Cowper, D Macvean (1830). “Poems”, p.36

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

William Cowper
Flower, Earth, Virtue

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper
Men, Mind, Earth
William Cowper, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe, John William Cunningham (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."”, p.240

Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.

William Cowper
Science, Age, Earth
William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.151

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