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tiful grounds which I have this year seen robbed by the spoiler of 

 half their beauty, I should deem it a most grateful consummation 

 of my labors to see my fair country-women once more smiling 

 and hopeful, embowered amidst their roses, and no Icnger mourn- 

 ing over their loved and lost, like Rachel, comfortless, or like 

 Niobe, weeping. 



