Poems to Thespia To Which are Added, Sonnets, &c. [by Hugh Downman] |
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XXIV. To Mr. ANDREW.
Connubial love with mutual ardour blest,It's beauteous progeny disporting round;
An income, which life's real comforts yields;
A decent mansion; small, but verdant fields;
Friendship; and social mirth by temperance crown'd;
True practic piety, in priests, the best;
Heart-warming gratitude, which ne'er repays
A patron's gifts with base or fawning praise;
A patron who such meanness would detest
Adding to relative, the name of friend.
Thus circumstanced, my Brother! with content,
With thankfulness for every bounty sent,
The muse to scenes like these shall often tend,
Scenes, where with joy her footstep ever strays.
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