“Those golden times
And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,
And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.”

—  William Cowper, The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 514.

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

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