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Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

William Cowper
Running, Home, Fancy
William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.234

He that runs may read.

William Cowper
Running, Reading, May
William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.104

But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

William Cowper
Running, Reading, Shining
William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.277

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