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Nor leaden eye the beauties that arise
From labor, sees. Accumulated filth
Annoys his crowded steps; even at his door
A yellow mucus from the dunghill stands
In squalid pools; his buildings, unrepaired,
To ruin rush precipitate; his fields
Disorder governs, and licentious weeds
Spring up unchecked; the nettle and the dock,
Wormwood and thistles, in their seasons rise,
And deadly nightshade spreads his poison round.
Ah! wretched he! if chance his wandering child,
By hunger prompted, pluck the alluring fruit !
Benumbing stupor creeps upon his brain;
Wild grinning laughter soon to this succeeds;
Strange madness then, and death in hideous form.
Mysterious Providence! ah, why concealed
In such a tempting form should poisons lurk ;
Ah, why so near the path of innocents
Should spring their bane? But Thou alone art wise!

ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF MANURING; LONDON MARKET-
GARDENS.COVENT GARDEN MARKET.

Thus hath the faithful Muse his lore pursued,
Who, trusting to the culture of his plough,
Refused the dunghill's aid. Yet listen not
To doubtful precepts, with implicit faith;
Experience to experience oft opposed

Leaves truth uncertain. See what various crops,
In quick succession, crown the gardened fields
On Thames' prolific bank. On culture's hand
Alone do these Horticulists rely?

Or do they owe to London's rich manure
Those products which its crowded markets fill ?
Both lend their aid and both, with art improved,
Have spread the glory of their gardens wide,
A theme of wonder to the distant swain.
Hence the piazzaed square, where erst, embowered
In solemn sloth, good Martin's lazy monks
Droned out their useless lives in pampered ease,
Now boasts, from industry's rough hand supplied,
Each various esculent the teeming earth
In every changing season can produce.

CULTURE AND MANURE MUST BOTH BE USED. KINDS OF
MANURES, AND THEIR VARIOUS USES; MARL, TAN; DUNG OF
CATTLE, SWINE, PIGEONS, HORSES, SHEEP; SOOT; MUCK;
STREET-SWEEPING GREENS.

Join, then, with culture the prolific strength
Of such manure as best inclines to aid
Thy failing glebe. Let oily marl impart
Its unctuous moisture, or the crumbling tan
Its glowing heat. Nor from the grazing herds,
Nor bristly swine obscene, disdain to heap
Their cooling ordure. Nor the warmer dungs
Of fiery pigeons, of the stabled horse,

Or folded flock, neglect. From sprinkled soot,

1 Covent Garden, which is now a market for greens, roots, etc., was formerly a garden belonging to the monks of St. Martin's convent.

2 The bark of oak, after it has been used by the tanner. It is frequently made use of for hot-beds, particularly for raising pine-apples; and is called by the gardeners tan.

From ashes strewed around, let the damp soil
Their nitrous salts imbibe. Scour the deep ditch
From its black sediment; and from the street
Its trampled mixtures rake. Green standing pools,
Large lakes, or meadows rank, in rotted heaps
Of unripe weeds,1 afford a cool manure.

MANURES; SHELLY OCEAN-SANDS AND THEIR USE; PULSE AND OTHER GREEN CROPS PLOUGHED IN TURNIPS.

From ocean's verge, if not too far removed Its shelly lands, convey a warm compost, From land and wave commixt with richness fraught: This the sour glebe shall sweeten, and for years, Through chilly clay, its vigorous heat shall glow. But if nor oily marl, nor crumbling tan, Nor dung of cattle, nor the trampled street, Nor weed, nor ocean's sand, can lend its aid; Then, farmer, raise immediate from their seeds The juicy stalks of largely-spreading pulse, Beans, buck-wheat, spurry, or the climbing vetch; These early reaped, and buried in the soil, Enrich the parent womb from whence they sprung. Or sow the bulbous turnip; this shall yield Sweet pasture to the flocks or lowing herds, And well prepare thy land for future crops.

HEDGES AND FENCING; THE SLOE, HOLLY; THE HAWTHORN, AND HOW TO SET IT.

Yet not alone to raise, but to secure Thy products from invasion, and divide For various use the appropriated fields, Disdain not thus to learn. For this, the sloe, The furze, the holly, to thy hand present Their branches, and their different merits boast. But from the nursery then with care select Quick hawthorn sets, well rooted, smooth, and Then low as sinks thy ditch on either side, [straight; Let rise in height the sloping bank; there plant Thy future fence, at intervals a foot

From each to each, in beds of richest mould.

HOW TO DEFEND AND CULTIVATE THE GROWING HEDGE; HEDGEROW BIRDS AND FLOWERS; CRAB-TREES.

Nor ends the labor here; but to defend
Thy infant shoots from depredation deep,
At proper distance drive stiff oaken stakes;
Which, interwove with boughs and flexile twigs,
Frustrate the nibbling flock or browsing herd.
Thus, if from weeds, that rob them of their food,
Or choke, by covering from the vital air,
The hoe's neat culture keep the thickening shoots,
Soon shall they rise, and to thy field afford
A beauteous, strong, impenetrable fence.
The linnet, goldfinch, nightingale, and thrush,
Here, by security invited, build

Their little nests, and all thy labors cheer
With melody: the hand of lovely May
Here strews her sweetest blossoms; and if mixed

1 If weeds are suffered to stand till they are ripe before they are made this use of, their seeds will fill the ground, and it will be difficult to get them out again.

With stocks of knotted crabs, ingrafted fruits, When autumn crowns the year, shall smile around.

TREE-CULTURE; CAUSES FOR IT; CHOICE OF A NURSERY, AND ITS PROTECTION.

But from low shrubs, if thy ambition rise To cultivate the larger tree, attend.

From seeds, or suckers, layers, or sets, arise
Their various tribes; for now exploded stands
The vulgar fable of spontaneous birth,

To plant or animal. He, then, who, pleased,
In Fancy's eye beholds his future race
Rejoicing in the shades their grandsire gave;
Or he whose patriot views extend to raise,
In distant ages, Britain's naval power;
Must first prepare, inclining to the south,

A sheltered nursery; well from weeds, from shrubs,
Cleared by the previous culture of the plough,
From cattle fenced, and every peeling tooth.

SELECTION AND PLANTING OF SEED FOR NURSERY PLANTS; SPRING-CULTURE OF SEEDLINGS.

Then from the summit of the fairest tree, His seed selected ripe, and sowed in rills On nature's fruitful lap: the harrow's care Indulgent covers from keen frosts that pierce, Or vermin who devour. The wintry months In embryo close the future forest lies, And waits for germination: but in spring, When their green heads first rise above the earth, And ask thy fostering hand; then to their roots The light soil gently move, and strew around Old leaves, or littered straw, to screen from heat The tender infants. Leave not to vile weeds This friendly office; whose false kindness chokes, Or starves the nurslings they pretend to shade.

TRANSPLANTING OF NURSLINGS; WHEN AND HOW.

When now four summers have beheld their youth Attended in the nursery, then transplant, The soil prepared, to where thy future grove Is destined to uprear its leafy head. Avoid the error of impatience. He Who, eager to enjoy the cooling shade His hands shall raise, removes at vast expense Tall trees, with envy and regret shall see His neighbor's infant plants soon, soon outstrip The tardy loiterers of his dwindled copse.

HOW TO RAISE THE BEST TIMBER.

But if thy emulation's generous pride

Would boast the largest timber straight and strong!
Thick let the seedlings in their native beds
Stand unremoved; so shall each lateral branch,
Obstructed, send its nourishment to raise
The towering stem: and they whose vigorous health
Exalts above the rest their lofty heads,

1 Not spontaneous; yet creative energy never flags; preservation is perpetual creation, and seeds and eggs are constantly being produced by the ceaseless love and wisdom of God, where neither the one nor the other existed.

Aspiring still, shall spread their powerful arms,
While the weak puny race, obscured below,
Sickening, die off, and leave their victors room.

USES OF THE VARIOUS FOREST-TREES; BEECH, BOX, YEW,
LINDEN, BIRCH, ASH, OSIER, CHESTNUT.

Nor small the praise the skilful planter claims From his befriended country. Various arts Borrow from him materials. The soft beech, And close-grained box, employ the turner's wheel, And with a thousand implements supply Mechanic skill. Their beauteous veins the yew And phyllerea lend, to surface o'er The cabinet. Smooth linden best obeys The carver's chisel: best his curious work Displays in all its nicest touches. Birch Ah! why should birch supply the chair? since oft Its cruel twigs compel the smarting youth To dread the hateful seat. Tough-bending ash Gives to the humble swain his useful plough, And for the peer his prouder chariot builds. To weave our baskets the soft osier lends His pliant twigs: staves that nor shrink nor swell, The cooper's close-wrought cask to chestnut owes.

USES OF THE WALNUT-TREE, ELM, AND OAK; SHIPS; DRUID GROVES.

The sweet-leaved walnut's undulated grain, Polished with care, adds to the workman's art Its varying beauties. The tall, towering elm, Scooped into hollow tubes, in secret streams Conveys for many a mile the limpid wave; Or from its height, when humbled to the ground, Conveys the pride of mortal man to dust. And last the oak, king of Britannia's woods, And guardian of her isle! whose sons robust, The best supporters of incumbent weight, Their beams and pillars to the builder give. Of strength immense or in the bounding deep The loose foundations lay of floating walls, Impregnably secure. But sunk, but fallen From all your ancient grandeur, O ye groves! Beneath whose lofty, venerable boughs, The Druid erst his solemn rites performed, And taught to distant realms his sacred lore, Where are your beauties fled? where but to serve Your thankless country, who unblushing sees, Her naked forests longing for your shade.

THE PRINCE EXHORTED TO RENEW THE OAK FORESTS OF
ENGLAND. DEAN, WINDSOR, AND SHERWOOD FORESTS.

The task, the glorious task, for thee remains,
O prince beloved! for thee more nobly born
Than for thyself alone, the patriot work
Yet unattempted waits. O let not pass

The fair occasion to remotest time
Thy name with praise, with honor to transmit!
So shall thy country's rising fleets to thee
Owe future triumph; so her naval strength,
Supported from within, shall fix thy claim
To ocean's sovereignty; and to thy ports,

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In every climate of the peopled earth.
Bear commerce; fearless, unresisted, safe.
Let then the great ambition fire thy breast,
For this thy native land; replace the lost
Inhabitants of her deserted plains.

Let Thame once more on Windsor's lofty hills
Survey young forests planted by thy hand.
Let fair Sabrina's flood again behold

The Spaniard's terror rise renewed; and Trent,
From Sherwood's ample plains, with pride convey
The bulwarks of her country to the main.

THE POET'S (DODSLEY'S) BIRTH-PLACE AND ASPIRATIONS. O native Sherwood, happy were thy bard, Might these his rural notes to future time Boast of tall groves, that, nodding o'er thy plain, Rose to their tuneful melody. But, ah! Beneath the feeble efforts of a muse Untutored by the lore of Greece or Rome; A stranger to the fair Castalian springs, Whence happier poets inspiration draw, And the sweet magic of persuasive song,The weak presumption, the fond hope expires. Yet sure some sacred impulse stirs my breast! I feel, I feel, an heavenly guest within! And all-obedient to the ruling God,

The pleasing task which he inspires pursue.

DRAINING IRRIGATION.

And hence, disdaining low and trivial things;
Why should I tell of him whose obvious art,
To drain the low damp meadow, sloping sinks

A hollow trench; which, arched at half its depth,
Covered with filtering brush-wood, furze, or broom,
And surfaced o'er with earth, in secret streams
Draws its collected moisture from the glebe?
Or why of him, who o'er his sandy fields,
Too dry to bear the sun's meridian beam,
Calls from the neighboring hills obsequious springs,
Which, led in winding currents through the mead,
Cool the hot soil, refresh the thirsty plain,
While withered plants reviving smile around?

LANDSCAPE-GARDENING; A TASTEFULLY LAID OUT FARM; WALKS WALL-FRUITS, ESCULENTS.

But sing, O muse! the swain, the happy swain, Whom taste and nature, leading o'er his fields, Conduct to every rural beauty. See! Before his footsteps winds the waving walk, Here gently rising, there descending slow, Through the tall grove, or near the water's brink, Where flowers besprinkled paint the shelving bank, And weeping willows bend to kiss the stream. Now wandering o'er the lawn he roves, and now Beneath the hawthorn's secret shade reclines : Where purple violets hang their bashful heads, Where yellow cowslips, and the blushing pink, Their mingled sweets and lovely hues combine.

1 The officers on board the Spanish fleet, in 1588, called the Invincible Armada, had it in their orders, if they could not subdue the island, at least to destroy the forest of Dean, which is in the neighborhood of the river Severn.

Here sheltered from the north, his ripening fruits Display their sweet temptations from the wall, Or from the gay espalier: while below, His various esculents, from glowing beds, Give the fair promise of delicious feasts.

THE GROVE, AND ITS MOSS-GROWN, RUINED TEMPLE. There from his forming hand new scenes arise, The fair creation of his fancy's eye. Lo! bosomed in the solemn, shady grove, Whose reverend branches wave on yonder hill, He views the moss-grown temple's ruined tower, Covered with creeping ivy's clustered leaves; The mansion seeming of some rural god, Whom nature's choristers, in untaught hymns Of wild yet sweetest harmony, adore.

A PROSPECT OVER AN IMPROVED AND CULTIVATED LANDSCAPE SHRUBS; THE ORANGE, ALMOND, PINE, GELDERROSE, ACACIA, ROSES, HONEYSUCKLE, MEZEREON, LAURUSTINUS, LABURNUM.

From the bold brow of that aspiring steep, Where hang the nibbling flocks, and view below Their downward shadows in the glassy wave, What pleasing landscapes spread before his eye! Of scattered villages, and winding streams, And meadows green, and woods, and distant spires, Seeming, above the blue horizon's bound, To prop the canopy of Heaven. Now lost Amidst a blooming wilderness of shrubs, The golden orange, arbute ever green, The early-blooming almond, feathery pine, Fair opulus, to spring, to autumn dear, And the sweet shades of varying verdure caught From soft acacia's gently waving branch, Heedless he wanders: while the grateful scents Of sweet-brier, roses, honeysuckles wild, Regale the smell; and to the enchanted eye Mezereon's purple, laurustinus white, And pale laburnum's pendent flowers display Their different beauties.

LAWNS; WATERFALLS; HAUNTS OF MEDITATION.

O'er the smooth-shorn grass

His lingering footsteps leisurely proceed,
In meditation deep:- when, hark! the sound
Of distant water steals upon his ear;
And sudden opens to his pausing eye
The rapid, rough cascade, from the rude rock
Down dashing in a stream of lucid foam :
Then glides away, meandering o'er the lawn,
A liquid surface; shining seen afar,
At intervals, beneath the shadowy trees;
Till lost and buried in the distant grove.
Wrapt into sacred musing, he reclines
Beneath the covert of embowering shades;
And, painting to his mind the bustling scenes
Of pride and bold ambition, pities kings.

1 The gelder-rose, a marsh shrub, called also the snowball tree.

APOSTROPHE TO THE GENIUS OF GARDENS; PARADISE, THE
HESPERIDES, CASTALIA, TEMPE; BRITISH LANDSCAPES.
Genius of gardens! Nature's fairest child!
Thou who, inspired by the directing mind
Of Heaven, didst plan the scenes of Paradise!
Thou at whose bidding rose the Hesperian bowers
Of ancient fame, the fair Aonian mount,
Castalian springs, and all the enchanting groves
Of Tempe's vale: O where hast thou been hid?
For ages where have strayed thy steps unknown?
Welcome at length, thrice welcome to the shore
Of Britain's beauteous isle; where verdant plains,
Where hills and dales, and woods and waters join,
To aid thy pencil, favor thy designs,
And give thy varying landscapes every charm.

DUTCH GARDENS REPROBATED; THEIR STIFFNESS AND ANGULARITY.

Drive then Batavia's monsters from our shades;
Nor let unhallowed shears profane the form,
Which Heaven's own hand, with symmetry divine,
Hath given to all the vegetable tribes.
Banish the regular deformity

Of plans by line and compass, rules abhorred
In nature's free plantations; and restore
Its pleasing wildness to the garden walk;
The calm serene recess of thoughtful man,
In meditation's silent, sacred hour.

CHISWICK GARDENS; RICHMOND AND OATLAND.

And, lo! the progress of thy steps appears
In fair improvements scattered round the land,
Earliest in Chiswick's beauteous model seen :
There thy first favorite, in the happy shade
To nature introduced, the goddess wooed,
And in sweet rapture there enjoyed her charms.
In Richmond's venerable woods and wilds,
The calm retreat, where wearied majesty,
Unbending from his cares for Britain's peace,
Steals a few moments to indulge his own.

On Oatland's brow, where grandeur sits enthroned,
Smiling on beauty.

THE VALE OF ESHER; SOUTHCOTE'S GROUNDS AND HAGLEY

PARK DESCRIBED.

In the lovely vale

Of Esher, where the Mole glides lingering, loth
To leave such scenes of sweet simplicity.
In Woburn's 2 ornamented fields, where gay
Variety, where mingled lights and shades, [break,
Where lawns and groves, and opening prospects
With sweet surprise, upon the wandering eye.
On Hagley's hills, irregular and wild,
Where through romantic scenes of hanging woods,
And valleys green, and rocks, and hollow dales,
While echo talks, and nymphs and dryads play,
Thou rov'st enamored; leading by the hand
Its master, who, inspired with all thy art,
Adds beauties to what nature planned so fair.

1 The taste for straight lines, regular platforms, and clipt trees, was imported from Holland at the Revolution. 2 Mr. Southcote's estate.

HE GARDENS OF EPICURUS.

Hail, sweet retirement! Wisdom's peaceful seat!
Where, lifted from the crowd, and calmly placed
Beyond the deafening roar of human strife,
The Athenian sage his happy followers taught,
That pleasure sprang from virtue. Gracious Heaven!
How worthy thy divine beneficence,

This fair established truth! Ye blissful bowers,
Ye vocal groves, whose echoes caught his lore,
O might I hear, through time's long tract conveyed,
The moral lessons taught beneath your shades!
And, lo! transported to the sacred scenes,
Such the divine enchantment of the muse,

I see the sage : I hear, I hear his voice.

THE TRUE DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS, CALLED GARDEN PHILOSOPHY; TEMPERANCE, COURAGE, FORTITUDE.

6 The end of life is happiness; the means That end to gain, fair virtue gives alone. From the vain phantoms of delusive fear, Or strong desire's intemperance, spring the woes Which human life embitter. O, my sons, From error's darkening clouds, from groundless fear Enfeebling all her powers, with early skill, Clear the bewildered mind. Let fortitude Establish in your breasts her steadfast throne ; So shall the stings of evil fix no wound : Nor dread of poverty, nor pain, nor grief, Nor life's disasters, nor the fear of death, Shake the just purpose of your steady souls. The golden curb of temperance next prepare, To rein the impetuous sallies of desire.

AVOID ANGER, AMBITION, LEWDNESS, AVARICE.

'He who the kindling sparks of anger checks,
Shall ne'er with fruitless tears in vain lament
Its flame's destructive rage. Who from the vale
Ambition's dangerous pinnacle surveys;

Safe from the blast which shakes the towering pile,
Enjoys secure repose, nor dreads the storm
When public clamors rise. Who cautious turns
From lewd temptation smiling in the eye
Of wantonness, hath burst the golden bands
Of future anguish ; hath redeemed his frame
From early feebleness, and dire disease.
Who lets the griping hand of avarice pinch
To narrow selfishness the social heart,
Excludes fair friendship, charity, and love,
From their divine exertions in his breast.

MODERATION TAUGHT WATER AND GARDEN-ROOTS, HERBS
AND FRUITS, SUFFICE FOR HEALTH; THE CELESTIAL VENUS.

And see, my friends, this garden's little bound,
So small the wants of nature, well supplies
Our board with plenty; roots, or wholesome pulse,
Or herbs, or flavored fruits; and from the stream
The hand of moderation fills a cup,

To thirst delicious. Hence nor fevers rise,
Nor surfeits, nor the boiling blood, inflamed
With turbid violence, the veins distends.

1 Epicurus, who, on account of teaching in his garden, was called the garden philosopher; and his disciples, philosophers of the garden. He died at Athens. B.C. 270, aged 71.

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Of hay-making. A method of preserving hay from being mow-burnt, or taking fire. Of harvest, and the harvesthome. The praises of England with regard to its various products. Apples. Hops. Hemp. Flax. Coals. Fuller's earth. Stone. Lead. Tin. Iron. Dyer's herbs. Esculents. Medicinals. Transitions from the cultivation of the earth to the care of sheep, cattle, and horses. Of feeding sheep. Of their diseases. Sheep-shearing. Of improving the breed. Of the dairy and its products. Of horses. The draught-horse, road-horse, hunter, race-horse, and warhorse. Concluding with an address to the Prince to prefer the arts of peace to those of war.

FARM-PRODUCTS; MOWING, HAY-RAKING. While thus at ease, beneath embellished shades, We rove delighted; lo! the ripening mead Calls forth the laboring hinds. In slanting rows, With still-approaching step, and levelled stroke, The early mower, bending o'er his scythe, Lays low the slender grass; emblem of man, Falling beneath the ruthless hand of time. Then follows blithe, equipped with fork and rake, In light array, the train of nymphs and swains. Wide o'er the field, their labor seeming sport, They toss the withering herbage. Light it flies, Borne on the wings of zephyr; whose soft gale, Now while the ascending sun's bright beam exhales The grateful sweetness of the new-mown hay, Breathing refreshment, fans the toiling swain.

THE HAYMAKERS; THEIR MIRTH; LUNCHEON; THE HAYCART, BARN, HAY-STACK.

And soon the jocund dale and echoing hill Resound with merriment. The simple jest, The village tale of scandal, and the taunts Of rude unpolished wit, raise sudden bursts Of laughter from beneath the spreading oak, Where, thrown at ease and sheltered from the sun, The plain repast and wholesome beverage cheer Their spirits. Light as air they spring, renewed, To social labor soon the ponderous wain Moves slowly onwards with its fragrant load, And swells the barn capacious: or, to crown Their toil, large tapering pyramids they build, The magazines of plenty, to insure

From winter's want the flocks and lowing herds.

HOW TO OBVIATE THE EFFECTS OF A SHOWER IN WETTING THE HAY; SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.

But do the threatening clouds precipitate Thy work, and hurry to the field thy team, Ere the sun's heat, or penetrating wind, Hath drawn its moisture from the fading grass? Or hath the bursting shower thy labors drenched

1 Epicurus placed in his garden a statue of the Venus Celestis, which probably he might intend should be symbolical of his doctrine.

With sudden inundation? Ah, with care
Accumulate thy load, or in the mow,

Or on the rising rick. The smothered damps,
Fermenting, glow within; and latent sparks
At length engendered, kindle by degrees,
Till, wide and wider spreading, they admit
The fatal blast, which instantly consumes,
In flames resistless, thy collected store.
This dire disaster to avoid, prepare
A hollow basket, or the concave round
Of some capacious vessel; to its sides
Affix a triple cord: then let the swains,
Full in the centre of thy purposed heap,
Place the obtrusive barrier; raising still
As they advance, by its united bands,
The wide machine. Thus leaving in the midst
An empty space, the cooling air draws in,
And from the flame, or from offensive taints
Pernicious to thy cattle, saves their food.

WHEAT-HARVEST; RAVAGES OF THE TEMPEST AND THE DE STRUCTIVE CHASE; OPPRESSIVE TRESPASSES OF WEALTH UPON POVERTY.

Now with enraptured eye toil, and its reward,

And now the ruler of the golden day
From the fierce Lion glows with heat intense;
While Ceres in the ripening field looks down
In smiles benign.
The end of all his
The farmer views. Ah, gracious heaven! attend
His fervent prayer: restrain the tempest's rage,
The dreadful blight disarm; nor in one blast
The products of the laboring year destroy!
Yet vain is heaven's indulgence; for when now
In ready ranks the impatient reapers stand,
Armed with the scythe or sickle :-echoes shrill
Of winding horns, the shouts and hallowings loud
Of huntsmen, and the cry of opening hounds,
Float in the gale melodious, but invade

His frighted sense with dread. Near and more near
The unwelcome sounds approach; and sudden o'er
His fence the tall stag bounds in close pursuit
The hunter train, on many a noble steed,
Undaunted follow; while the eager pack
Burst unresisted through the yielding hedge,
In vain, unheard, the wretched hind exclaims:
The ruin of his crop in vain laments;
Deaf to his cries, they traverse the ripe field
In cruel exultation; trampling down
Beneath their feet, in one short moment's sport,
The peace, the comfort of his future year.
Unfeeling wealth! ah, when wilt thou forbear
Thy insults, thy injustice to the poor?
When taste the bliss of nursing in thy breast
The sweet sensations of humanity?
Yet all are not destroyers: some unspoiled
By fortune still preserve a feeling heart.

WHEAT-SHEAFS; BEER; RYE; OATS; THE LAST LOAD; HARVEST-HOME; THE FESTIVAL OF HARVEST-HOME.

Now see the yellow fields, with laborers spread, Resign their treasures to the reaper's hand.

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