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the bounds of a few acres, cultivated by his own hand. 

 Then will he find his pleasures expanding with the sim 

 plicity of his wants ; and while the lovers of forbidden 

 things are loathing life amid a surfeit of luxuries, he 

 discovers with the light of every new morning, some 

 fresh fountain of happiness at the inner shrine of 

 nature. 



