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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM XVIII.

[A Thousand objects of desire]

QUOD PETIS, HIC EST.

A Thousand objects of desire,
On foreign coasts you'll view;
Now art, now nature's works admire,
Here splendor, there virtù:—
But blessings which at home you see,
Sublimer joy suggest:
Old England gives you Liberty;
And that gives all the rest.