6 THE PRAISE OjY *&ECT.J. 



daily walk amidft rows of peaceable and obfequious 

 fubje&s ; every one of which tenders him fome agree- 

 able prefent, and pays him a willing tribute. Such as 

 is moft excellently adapted, both to fupply his wants, 

 and resale his tafle ; to f urnilh him at once with both 

 plenty and pleafure." 



From the amiable Camper fomething on this fubjefr 

 may be added. See the garden, in his Poem, entitled 

 the Task. 



O friendly to the beft purfuits of man, 

 Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace, 

 Domeflic life in rural leifure pafs'd. 



Scenes formed for contemplation, and to nurfe 

 The growing feeds ofwifdom ; that fuggeit, 

 By every pleafmg image they prefent, 

 Reflections fuch as meliorate the heart, 

 Compofe the paffions, and exalt the mind. 



Oh ! bleit feclufion from a jarring world, 

 Which he, thus occupied, enjoys ! Retreat 

 Cannot indeed to guilty man reftore 

 Loft innocence, or cancel follies paft, 

 But it has peace, and much fecures the mind 

 From all aiTaults of evil, proving ftill 

 A faithful barrier, not o'erleap'd with eafe, 

 By vicious cuftom raging uncontroul'd 

 Abroad, and defolating public life. 



The morning finds the felf-fequefter'd man, 



Frefh for his talk, intend what talk he may. 



• — If the garden with its many cares, 



All well repaid, demand him, he attends 



The welcome call. 



Had I the choice of fublunary good, 



What could I wiih, that I poffefs not here ? 



Sir William Temple commended the employment 

 and care of a garden as his fettled choice, faying,— 

 For my own part, as the country life, and this part of 



it 



