Cowper: Illustrated by a Series of Views, in Or Near, the Park of Weston-Underwood, Accompanied with Descriptions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cowper: Illustrated by a Series of Views, in or Near, the Park of Weston-Underwood, Accompanied With Descriptions

The Mill, referred to in the fifth book of The Task, is entirely demolished, and, but for a few scattered stones, the place where it stood would be forgotten. It was situated in a meadow at the foot of Clifton Hill, near Olney, and, from the romantic beauty of the sur rounding scenery, could not escape the discriminating eye of Cowper.

In the later editions of Cowper's Poems, a piece is introduced, called The Poplars, the destruction of which he deplores. They may still be traced on the ground by remaining shoots; but when we conceive that the va-e enum which appears, was formerly occupied by a race of noble trees, only two of which remain, we lament, with the poet, the havock of the axe, and take up his plaint, when he says.

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