It is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper. Beginning with a mock-Miltonic passage on the origins of the sofa, it develops into a discursive meditation on the blessings of nature, the retired life and religious faith, with attacks on slavery, blood sports, fashionable frivolity, lukewarm clergy and French despotism among other things.
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![Milan Commission. The diverting history of Baron Ompteda, coadjutor of great folks, and rival of Bill Soames. Shewing how he went a peeping and picking locks, but did not get safe home again. By John Gilpin. [In verse. A parody of Cowper's poem.]](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Publication/cb/71/b1/mzi.kkzyyjhg.jpg/270x0w.webp)
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