If  you love both poetry and godliness, you should read William Cowper.  He is an absolute delight.  This piece of prose is from a letter to Mrs. John Newton, written in August 1781:

While the world lasts, fashion will continue to lead it by the nose.  And, after all, what can fashion do for its most obsequious followers?  It can ring the changes upon he same things, and it can do no more. Whether our hats be white or black, our caps high or low,—whether we wear two watches or one—is of little consequence. There is indeed an appearance of variety; but the folly and vanity that dictate and adopt the change are invariably the same.  When the fashions of a particular period appear more reasonable than those of the preceding, it is not because the world is grown more reasonable than it was; but because, in a course of perpetual  changes, some of them must sometimes happen to be for the better.  Neither do I suppose the preposterous customs that prevail at present a proof of its greater folly.  In a few years, perhaps next year, the fine gentleman will shut up his umbrella, and give it to his sister, filling his hand with a crab-tree cudgel instead of it: and when he has done so, will he be wiser than now?  By no means.  The love of change will have betrayed him into a propriety, which, in reality, he has no taste for, all his merit on the occasion amounting to no ore than this—that, being weary of one plaything, he has taken up another