In Memory of WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. Born in Hertfordshire, 1731. Buried in this Church, 1800. Ye, who with warmth the public triumph feel Here to devotion's bard devoutly just, Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust! Ranks with her dearest sons his fav'rite name : Cowper has justly been called the poet of Domestic Life; but his writings are so diversified, as to have a charm for every taste, and for every age. They are calculated not only to awaken the genuine sympathies of the mind, but to rectify the morals, and shed the brightest lustre round the divine realities of our most holy faith. The Glow-worm; translation of the foregoing The Jackdaw; translation of the foregoing Ad Grillum. Anacreonticum by Vincent Bourne The Cricket; translation of the foregoing Simile Agit in Simile. By Vincent Bourne The Parrot; translation of the foregoing An Epistle to a Protestant Lady in France POEMS. TABLE TALK. Si te fortè meæ gravis uret sarcina chartæ, A. You told me, I remember, glory, built B. I grant that, men continuing what they are, Feats of renown, though wrought in ancient days, Tells of a few stout hearts, that fought and died Where duty placed them, at their country's side; The man that is not moved with what he reads, The wretch, to nought but his ambition true, A. 'Tis your belief the world was made for man; Could they, or would they, reason as they ought. |