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The Poems of Robert Fergusson

Edited by Matthew P. McDiarmid
Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)

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ANTISTROPHE.

Oh exercise! thou healing power,
The toiling rustic's chiefest dower;
Be thou with parent virtue join'd
To quell the tumults of the mind;
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Then man as much of joy can share
From ruffian winter, bleakly bare,
As from the pure ætherial blaze
That wantons in the summer rays;
The humble cottage then can bring
Content, the comfort of a king;
And gloomy mortals wish no more
For wealth and idleness to make them poor.
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