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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: To purify their wine some people bleed
Last Line: Good cause why planters never try their own.
Subject(s): Innocence
First Line: To purify their wine some people bleed
Last Line: Good cause why planters never try their own.
Subject(s): Innocence
(PRINTED IN THE "NORTHAMPTON MERCURY.")
To purify their wine some people bleed
A lamb into the barrel, and succeed;
No nostrum, planters say, is half so good
To make fine sugar as a negro's blood.
Now lambs and negroes both are harmless things,
And thence perhaps this wondrous virtue springs.
'Tis in the blood of innocence alone--
Good cause why planters never try their own.
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