AUTHORSHIP.

THE MORAL SATIRES.
Since his recovery, Cowper had been looking out for what he most needed, a pleasant occupation.

He tried drawing, carpentering, gardening.

Of gardening he had always been fond; and he understood it as shown by the loving though somewhat "stercoraceous" minuteness of some passages in _The Task_.

A little greenhouse, used as a parlour in summer, where he sat surrounded by beauty and fragrance, and lulled by pleasant sounds, was another product of the same pursuit, and seems almost Elysian in that dull dark life.