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And I, contented with a humble theme,

Have poured my stream of panegyric down

The vale of Nature, where it creeps and winds

Among her lovely works, with a secure

And unambitious course, reflecting clear

If not the virtues, yet the worth, of brutes.

And I am recompensed, and deem the toils

Of poetry not lost, if verse of mine

May stand between an animal and woe,

And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge.

Cowper.