“What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.”

—  William Cowper

No. 1, "Walking With God"
Olney Hymns (1779)

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

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