A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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From MARTIAL.
These earthly happiness compleat:A snug hereditary seat:
Fields free to give what ease requires:
Hearths ever warmed with heartsome fires;
Calm quietness from clamour loud;
No business with the peevish proud;
A vigour active, yet refined;
Simplicity with prudence joined;
Sweet converse seasoning wholesome fare;
Evenings without excess or care;
Short nights by unsought slumbers blest;
And what gives relish to the rest,
An easy acquiescent mind,
To the wise will of Heaven resigned.
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