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  • Oh, popular applause! what heart of man
    Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
    The wisest and the best feel urgent need
    Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales;
    But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas!
    With all his canvas set, and inexpert,
    And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?

    William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.100, Routledge