THE QF 



SECT* |. 



daily walk arnidft rows of peaceable and obfequlous 

 fubjecls ; every one of which tenders him fome agree- 

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

 as raoft excellently adapted, both to fupply his wants, 

 and regale his talle ; to iurnifh him at once with both 

 plenty and p-leafure." 



From the amiable Ccwper fomething on this fubjeft 

 may be added . See tKt garden, in his Poem, enticed 

 the Task* 



O friendly to the beft purfuits of man, 

 Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace* 

 Domeftic life in rural leifure pafs'd. 



Scenes formed for contemplation, and to nurfe 

 The growing feeds of wifdom * that f uggeft, 

 By every pleanng image they prefent, 

 Reflections fuch as meliorate the heart, 

 Compofe the pafflons, and exalt the mind. 



Oh ! bleft feclufion from a jarring world, 

 Which he, thus occupied, enjoys ! Retreat 

 Cannot indeed to guilty man reft ore 

 Loft innocence, or cancel follies paft, 

 But it has peace, and much fecures the mind 

 From all affauks of evil, proving iiill 

 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.fequefterM man, 



Frelh 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 wilh, that I poiTefs not here ? 



Sir William Temple commended the employment 

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

 for my own part, as the coliritry life, and this pan of 



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