William Cowper

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William Cowper (1731–1800) was an English poet and hymnist whose collaboration with John Newton produced the Olney Hymns (1779), including "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" and "O for a Closer Walk with God." A deeply Calvinist Christian, his poetry and correspondence reveal a man of profound piety who struggled throughout his life with depression and spiritual anxiety.

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Truth
Man, on the dubious waves of error toss’d, His ship half founder’d, and his compass lost, Sees, far as human optics may command, A sleeping fog, and fancies it dry land; Spreads all his canvas, every sinew plies; Pants for it, aims at it, enters it, and dies! Then farewell all self-satisfying…