Complacency may breath a gentle gail over the thoughts and swell an "easy sail"
Truth [from Poems]
At least entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1797, 1798, 1800, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T14895">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;
&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br>
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Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 280-296.