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What prodigies can power divine perform More grand than it produces year by year, And all in sight of inattentive man? Familiar with the effect, we slight the cause, And in the constancy of nature’s course, The regular return of genial months, See nought to wonder at.

What prodigies can power divine perform More grand than it produces year by year, And all in sight of inattentive man? Familiar with the effect, we slight the cause, And in the constancy of nature’s course, The regular return of genial months, See nought to wonder at.

Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern

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William Cowper
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Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 528 · printed citation: Cowper · subject: SEASONS

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