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I Will Praise The Lord At All Times.

By William Cowper

Topics: classic

Winter has a joy for me,     While the Saviours charms I read,     Lowly, meek, from blemish free,     In the snowdrops pensive head.     Spring returns, and brings along     Life-invigorating suns:     Hark! the turtles plaintive song     Seems to speak his dying groans!     Summer has a thousand charms,     All expressive of his worth;     Tis his sun that lights and warms,     His the air that cools the earth.     What! has Autumn left to say     Nothing of a Saviours grace?     Yes, the beams of milder day     Tell me of his smiling face.     Light appears with early dawn,     While the sun makes haste to rise;     See his bleeding beauties drawn     On the blushes of the skies.     Evening with a silent pace,     Slowly moving in the west,     Shows an emblem of his grace,     Points to an eternal rest.

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William Cowper

About William Cowper

William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnodist whose work bridges the gap between the Augustan age and Romanticism. His poems "The Task" and "John Gilpin" were enormously popular, and his hymn "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" remains widely sung.

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