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Frov'd he not plainly that his meaner works 

 Are yet his care, and have an int'reft all — * 

 All in the univerfal Father's love?" 



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* s I would not enter on my lift of friends 



(Tho' grae'd with polifh'd manners and fine fenfe 3 



Yet wanting fenfibility) the man 



Who needlefsly fets foot upon a worm. 



An inadvertent ftep may crufh the fnail 



That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; 



But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, 



Will tread afide, and let the reptile live." 



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" A neceffary aSt incurs no blame : 

 Not fo when held within their proper bounds,. 

 And guiklefs of offence, they range the air, 

 Or take their paftime in the fpacious field : — ■ 

 There they are privilege!. And he that hunts, 

 Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong." 



Cowper's Poems, vol. 2 S b. vi 



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