Poetry: Extract From Cowper

Theodtnirers of Cowper wiU prob-.ibly fee!, on rcading the following linos, ihat Anti-Slavry is not a new inventiun: RIy God! whnt wish can prosper, or what proyer, For tiiose vvlio denl in cnrgocs of desunir, VV1k drive a Joailjesome traffick, guage nnd span, And buy the rauscles and the bones of man? The tender ties of hus&and, father fiicnd, Ali bonds of nature in thnl mo:nctt end; And eoch endures, whi le jet he draw lü bieah, A etroke ne lutal ns the scyllie of lrath. The ablc warrior, fruniio wi'li regiet ül' her lie loved nnd never oan forger, i.oáes in siglit tlie lar receding ihoic, üut not liiü tiionght tliat ilicy uiusi meet hó inore. IIp, to dnll iadiiops inllonly re-iijTrirr?, Nov i'cels liis budy' boiiiiatí ín üie inmój Puin ofF hirifiPneroiis nature, nn I f snit ilia uiniïpera wilh liio falo, jul& on liis briür. They fiixnid Ihcm slavtt - but who tliat titlc gave? Tuk Guo or satchk nkvkr fokmed a si-ave! Though Frund or Foice acquit o tí naeter's i iwme, Nnturo nnc! Juslico inust rermin tlio same. Nature imprinls upon whm'er we svc, That lus a henrt pixI liffc in il-, bkf.:kk! Tne brasls re chnrlcr;J, ncitiier e nor furce Chi qiiL-II llie love of hreudum in a liorecCanst thoti, Uien, lionored witli a Clintiim iiainr, Ruy what i woman-bok, and fw! no shnmt? Wude in the bloort nf inn-conce, nnd p!eud ExFKOiKxcr 113 a warrant for ihe det-u ? So m iy Ju; woll', lliat fatnine lins in:u]e bold T quit ihe foresi oud invade ihe fold: Ko mny the rufrian, who, witli jrhosiiy glidc, Jger ' liaiid, steals close lo Ihe bedtide: Not be, but his cmergence forced !he door, He found it inconytnitnt to be poor. Ilns God then givcn its to the canc, Utiless his laws b trampled on - in vnin?