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tiful grounds which I have this year seen robbed by the spoiler < 
half their beauty, I should deem it a most grateful consummatic 
of my labors to see my fair country-women once more srnilii 
and hopeful, embowered amidst their roses, and no longer n:our 
ing over their loved and lost, like Rachel, comfortless, or lil 
Niobe, weeping. 
