“So Fancy dreams. Disprove it, if ye can,
Ye reasoners broad awake, whose busy search
Of argument, employed too oft amiss,
Sifts half the pleasures of short life away!”

—  William Cowper

Source: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 29-32

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

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