“But Conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.”

—  William Cowper

Source: Conversation (1782), Line 703.

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

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