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 |
QUIET LIFE. |
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QUIET LIFE.
From Martial.
Might I permitted be to spendMy days securely with my friend;
Our lives at pleasure might we lead
And be allow'd to live indeed.
Far would we keep from hurry, far
From the harsh wranglings of the Bar,
Far from the treach'rous Palace-gate,
And all the shewy toils of state.
To entertaining books and talk,
The pleasant ride, the peaceful walk,
The Bath, the Portico, the Shade,
Our time, as due, should all be paid.
Now to himself ah! neither lives,
But Suns asliding down perceives,
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Know we to live, and do we stay?
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