"He gives, what bankrupt Nature never can, / 
Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man, / 
Gold, purer far than Ophir ever knew, / A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true."
The Valediction
Cowper, William, and William Hayley. <u>The Life and Letters of William Cowper</u>. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, and Co. ; T. Cadell ; Baldwin and Cradock ; J. Booker ; Baynes and Son ; Hamilton, Adams and Co. ; Whittaker and Co. ; E. Hodgson ; Simpkin, Marshall and Co. ; R. Mackie ; and W. Mason, 1835, p. 191.