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William Cowper

The Task: The Garden

[1785] William Cowper, The Task [1st Published (London, 1785)] in The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems, Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence (Boston, 1855; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks) 578.

Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain,
That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks
Of harmless nature, dumb, but yet endued
With eloquence, that agonies inspire,
Of silent tears and heart-distending sighs!
Vain tears, alas! and sighs that never find
A corresponding tone in jovial souls.