Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
William CowperBlest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
William CowperHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
William Cowper