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poverty, which Solomon has said shall be his 

 lot. And, the great thing of all, is, that here, 

 every man, even every labourer, may live as well 

 as this, if he will be sober and industrious. 



22. There are two things, which I have not 

 yet mentioned, and which are almost wholly 

 wanting here, while they are so amply enjoyed 

 in England. The singing birds and the flowers. 

 Here are many birds in summer, and some of 

 very beautiful plumage. There are some wild 

 flowers, and some English flowers in the best 

 gardens. But, generally speaking, they are 

 birds without song, and flowers without smell. 

 The linnet (more than a thousand of which I 

 have heard warbling upon one scrubbed oak 

 on the sand hills in Surrey), the sky-lark, the 

 goldfinch, the wood-lark, the nightingale, the 

 bull-finch, the black-bird, the thrush, and all the 

 rest of the singing tribe are wanting in these 

 beautiful woods and orchards of garlands. 

 When these latter have dropped their bloom, all 

 is gone in the flowery way. No shepherd's rose r 

 no honey-suckle, none of that endless variety of 

 beauties that decorate the hedges and the mea 

 dows in England. No daisies, no primroses, no 

 cowslips, no blue-bells, no daffodils, which, as if 

 it were not enough for them to charm the sight 

 and the smell, must have names, too, to delight 

 the ear. All these are wanting in America. 

 Here are, indeed, birds, which bear the name of 



