202 II OV INCH AM. 



The Church is a large, handsome, well-built, and 

 commodious structure, dedicated to All Saints. The 

 south front was rebuilt in 1725, and the interior has 

 recently undergone a thorough repair, having been 

 repewed, underdrawn, and otherwise handsome- 

 ly fitted up, at a considerable expence, and with a 

 taste and arrangement, highly creditable to the li- 



dififerencss, and joining hand in hand in the god-like 

 work of Christian charity and mutual good will. A be- 

 nevolence, whose good effects cease not with the moment, 

 but are destined to shed their blessings on successive 

 generations, exciting and cherishing the kindlier fee* 

 lings of our nature, the endearing charities of life; - 

 promoting haWts of industry, economy and independ- 

 ence ; and obviating the necessity of that last and 

 most painful expedient the necessity of parochial assist- 

 ance. 



When was public virtue to be found 

 "Where private was not ? Can he love the whole 

 Who loves no part? He be a nation's friend 

 Who is in truth the friend of no man there ? 

 Can he be strenuous in his country's cause, 

 Who slights the charities, for whose dear sake 

 That county, if at all, must be beloved ? 



1 was born of woman, and drew milk 



As sweet as charity from human breasts. 

 I think, articulate, I laugh, and weep 

 And exercise all functions of a man. 1 

 How then should I and any man that lives 

 Be strangers to each other ? Pierce my vein, 

 Take of the crimson stream meand'ring there 

 And catechise it well ; apply thy glass 

 Search it, and prove now if it be not blood 

 Congenial with thine own : and if it be 

 What edge of subtilty canst thou suppose 

 Keen enough, v.ise and skilful as thou art, 

 To cut the link of brotherhood, by which 

 One common maker bound me to my kind ! 

 Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh indeed. 



Cowper's Poems. 



