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lines ; and the countryman bepraised by the poet 

 would not surely make a very active railway-director ; 

 and yet the mouldy old British portrait will not serve 

 badly as a pendant to these Rural Studies : 



No empty hopes, no courtly fears him fright, 

 No begging wants his middle fortune bite, 

 But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. 



His certain life, that never can deceive him, 

 Is full of thousand sweets, and rich content ; 



The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him 

 With coolest shade, till noontide's heat be spent : 

 His life is neither tossed in boisterous seas, 

 Or the vexatious world, or lost in slothful ease : 

 Pleased, and full blest he lives, when he his God can please. 



THE END. 



