English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
William Cowper
318. To Mary Unwin
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Such aid from heaven as some have feign’d they drew,
An eloquence scarce given to mortals, new
And undebased by praise of meaner things,
I may record thy worth with honour due,
In verse as musical as thou art true,
And that immortalizes whom it sings:—
By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light,
On which the eyes of God not rarely look,
There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine;
And since thou own’st that praise, I spare thee mine.