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Quotes from The Yardley Oak — William Cowper

1731–1800 England

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It seems idolatry with some excuse,
When our forefather Druids in their oaks
Imagined sanctity.

The Yardley Oak (1791)

Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all
that once lived here

The Yardley Oak (1791)

So Fancy dreams. Disprove it, if ye can,
Ye reasoners broad awake, whose busy search
Of argument, employed too oft amiss,
Sifts half the pleasures of short life away!

The Yardley Oak (1791)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Cowper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.