<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537825" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet Addressed To William Hayley, Esq.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hayley, thy tenderness fraternal shown<br>In our first interview, delightful guest!<br>To Mary and me for her dear sake distressed,<br>Such as it is has made my heart thy own,<br>Though heedless now of new engagements grown,<br>For threescore winters make a wintry breast,<br>And I had purposed ne'er to go in quest<br>Of Friendship more, except with God alone.<br>But thou hast won me; nor is God my foe,<br>Who, ere this last afflictive scene began,<br>Sent thee to mitigate the dreadful blow,<br>My brother, by whose sympathy I know<br>Thy true deserts infallibly to scan,<br>Not more to admire the bard than love the man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537825" data-title="Sonnet Addressed To William Hayley, Esq. de William Cowper" data-description="Hayley, thy tenderness fraternal shown In our first interview, delightful guest! To Mary and me for her dear sake distressed, Such as it is has made my heart thy own, Though heedless now of new engagements grown, For threescore winters make a wint..."></div> </div> </div>

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