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EPIGRAM CXIII.

[See! stretch'd on nature's couch of grass]

SPLENDEAT USU.

See! stretch'd on nature's couch of grass,
The foot-sore traveller lies!
Vast treasures let the great amass;
A leathern pouch, and burning glass,
For all his wants suffice.

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For him the sun it's power displays,
In either hemisphere;
Pours on Virginia's coast it's blaze,
Tobacco for his pipe to raise;
And shines to light it—here!