Reciprocal Kindness the Primary Law of Nature... 362 A Manual more ancient than the Art of Printing.... 363 The Cause won.............................. 371 The Innocent Thief............................... 372 Denner's Old Woman............................. 373 The Tears of a Painter.................... 374 ........................................ 375 A Reflection on the foregoing Ode................ Hor. Book II. Ode XVI.......... The Fifth Satire of the First Book of Horace... Montes Glaciales, in Oceano Germanico natantes... On the Ice Islands seen floating in the German Ocean 437 COWPER'S POEMS. VOLUME II. THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOWWORM. A NIGHTINGALE, that all day long Released him, as my story tells, That brother should not war with brother, Those Christians best deserve the name AN EPISTLE TO AN AFFLICTED PROTESTANT LADY IN FRANCE. MADAM, A stranger's purpose in these lays Is to congratulate, and not to praise. To give the creature the Creator's due Were sin in me, and an offence to you. From man to man, or e'en to woman paid, Praise is the medium of a knavish trade, A coin by craft for folly's use design'd, Spurious, and only current with the blind. The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown; No traveller ever reach'd that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briers in his road. The world may dance along the flowery plain, Cheer'd as they go by many a sprightly strain, Where Nature has her mossy velvet spread, With unshod feet they yet securely tread, |