Ask now of history’s authentic page,

And call up evidence from every age;

Display with busy and laborious hand

The blessings of the most indebted land;

What nation will you find, whose annals prove

So rich an interest in Almighty love?

Where dwell they now, where dwelt in ancient day

A people planted, water’d, blest, as they?

                                                                              (from WILLIAM COWPER)