Among those who know him as a poet, many do not know that William Cowper lived with bleak depression as a steady companion all his life, sometimes immobilized in despair, and repeatedly attempting suicide.
In spite of this darkness, Cowper today is still touching the hearts of thousands who know nothing of him at all, simply because in worship they sing his hymns ‘There is a fountain filled with blood’ ‘O for a closer walk with God’ and ‘God moves in a mysterious way’
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