I Praise The Frenchman, How Sweet, How Passing Sweet, Is Solitude!

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I praise the Frenchman,
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- Retirement, Line 739

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