To this dire cause we trace:
Yet He, who, by his healing word,
The limb, the sight, the light restor❜d;
Whose mighty voice from demon saves
The maniac wand'ring 'mong the graves;
He makes e'en sharp affliction prove
The wholesome medicine of love,

The furnace of his grace.

Ye mourning saints, through thickest darkness led,
Let not tormenting unbelief prevail;

Shall the sheep die for whom the Shepherd bled ?
Shall God's almighty pow'r and promise fail?
Ah! no; e'en Cowper, of all hope bereft-
Bereft of reason-deeming God his foe,
Was not to dreadful self-destruction left,

Nor left to sin and murmur 'midst his woe:
The conflict past, his happy spirit flies

To worlds of joy, on angels' pinions borne: So sets the sun in darkness-soon to rise

In lustre fresh, with the returning morn.'

THE END.

INDEX.

A

ABBOT, Mr., Cowper's humorous remarks on sitting to, for his por
trait, 333

Aberration, mental, effects of Cowper's, 300

Accidents, remarks upon, 279

Adulation, Cowper 's abhorrence of, 402

Advice, Cowper's capacity and readiness to give, 295

willingness to receive, 144

Affliction, benefit of, 92.

befals us by God's will, 57

consolatory remarks upon, 89
good results of, 337

leads to happiness, 43

the best school, 353

the language it speaks, 88

Age, effects of and remarks upon, 358

-, remarks on, 138

Alteration in his poems, Cowper's readiness to make, 280

Ambition, Cowper's, 220

Amusements, Cowper's, 117

Animal magnetism, 298

Anxiety, intense, effects of, 452

Aspersions, false, repelled by Cowper, 208

Associates, Cowper's early, his desire for their salvation, 54
Austen, Lady, character of, lines to, 138

her removal to Olney, 160

sudden termination of her intimacy with Cowper, 166
Author, Cowper's motives for becoming, 138

sensations of, 185

--s, responsibility of, 284

B

Bagot, Rev. Walter, consolatory letter to, 229
Ballads, Cowper's opinion of, 256

Bereavements, consoling remarks upon, 351-353

Bible, its happy effect on Cowper's mind, 37

Cowper's constant companion, 40

Bigotry, Cowper's aversion to, 402

Blindness of heart, effects of, 450

Bodham, Mrs., presents Cowper with his mother's portrait, 291

Cowper kindly invites her to Weston, 293
Cowper's visit to, 380

Booksellers, remarks upon, 140

Brighton amusements, remarks upon, 153, 154

Brother, Cowper's, affliction of, 91

state of his mind, 92

conversion and experience of, 95-97
death of, 98

character of, 100

Cock fighting, anecdote respecting, 277

Companion, Cowper often a most cheerful one, 415
Connoisseur, Cowper an occasional correspondent, 12
Conscience, Cowper's victory over, 16

Consolation, Cowper's skill in administering, 413

Contentment, Cowper's, 410

CONVERSATION, notice of, 433

Conversation, Christian, remarks upon, 261

Cowper's, often interesting, 269

Correspondents, Cowper's excuses for neglect of, 274
Cotter, Dr., 33, 45

Cowper, Ashley, Esq., death of, 261

character of, 262

poetic memorial of, 263

Cowper's birth and ancestry, 1

first school, 5

first serious impressions, 6
removal to Westminster, 7
entrance into the Temple, 11
first attack of depression, 14

appointments in the House of Lords, 17
suicidical attempts, 25

removal to St. Alban's, 34

Huntingdon, 47

first acquaintance with the Unwins, 61

introduction to Mr. Newton and removal to Olney, 82
intended marriage to Mrs. Unwin, 101

second attack of depression, 106

publication of his first volume, 148

first acquaintance with Lady Austen, 157

publication of his second volume, 184

removal to Weston, 200

third attack of depression, 240

Homer, publication of, 307

first intimacy with Hayley, 314

journey to Eartham, 334

return to Weston, 339

last severe attack of depression, 371

removal into Norfolk, 379

portrait by Abbot, sight of, how affected by, 380

feelings on Mrs. Unwin's death, 386

declining strength, 394

rapidly increasing weakness and death, 397

last words, 398

person, description of, 400

poetry, remarks on, 401

prose productions and letters, 441

works, list of, 427

scholastic attainments, 420

Cowper's minor productions, 440
Critics, remarks upon, 225

Cruelty, Cowper's abhorrence of, 407

D

Death, consolatory remarks upon, 236
Departed spirits, employment of, 230
Depravity, human, 36

Depressed Christian sometimes made useful, 257
Depression, effects of Cowper's, 264

continuance of, 318-327

Cowper's, unremoved, 338

deliverance from, ardent desires for, 346
mental causes of, 112

severity of, 120, 171

Dereham, Cowper's removal to, 385

Desertion insupportable, 245

Despairing thoughts, Cowper's, 174

Discipline, lines upon, 409

Dissipation, remarks on, 153, 154

Distress made Cowper an author, 205

Dreams, notice of, 169, 239

Cowper's harrassing nature of, 331

Early life, remarks upon, 252

E

Eartham, Cowper's journey to, 328, 334

description of, 335-331

Emotions of friends at meeting after long separation, 193
Employments; mental benefit of, to Cowper, 141

Engagements, Cowper's numerous, 265

Enthusiasm, Christian joy not, 43

Epistolary converse, Cowper's, noticed, 310

Established church, Cowper's attachment to, 402
Evangelical doctrine, dislike of unreasonable, 351
Experience, Cowper's painful, 172, 173

peculiarities of, 204-206

EXPOSTULATION, notice of, 430

Faith, importance of, 56
happy results of, 65

practical nature of, 68

Fame, little value of, 246

Father, Cowper's, death of, 17

Feelings, Cowper's described, 128

F

singularity of Cowper's, 21

Female oculist, Cowper placed under a, 6
Fidelity of Cowper as a translator, 440
Four ages, intended poem upon, 279, 359
Freemantle, Cowper's happy feelings there, 15
Friendship, remarks on, 122

lines on, 406