Oh how unlike the Complex works of Man Heavens easy artless unincumbered plan Its meretricious graces to beguile No clust’ring ornaments to clog the pile From ostentation as from weakness free It stands like the Cerulean arch we see Majestic in its own Simplicity

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Oh how unlike the Complex works of Man Heavens easy artless unincumbered plan Its meretricious graces to beguile No clust’ring ornaments to clog the pile From ostentation as from weakness free It stands like the Cerulean arch we see Majestic in its own Simplicity
Listed on Page Number
311
Sampler Worked By
Marie Sutherland Mitchell
Date of Sampler
1818
Place Sampler Made
Charlestown, SC
Sampler Listed on Page
198
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Cowper, William. Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, p. 74.
Notes
https://archive.org/details/poems03blakgoog/page/n84/mode/1up?q=arch