“With filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, My Father made them all!”

— William Cowper , The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 745.

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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800

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