Entangled2, winds now this way and now that
His devious3 course uncertain, seeking home;
Or, having long in miry ways been foiled
And sore discomfited4, from slough5 to slough
Plunging6, and half despairing of escape,
If chance at length he find a greensward smooth
And faithful to the foot, his spirits rise,
He chirrups brisk his ear-erecting steed,
And winds his way with pleasure and with ease;
So I, designing other themes, and called
To adorn7 the Sofa with eulogium due,
To tell its slumbers9 and to paint its dreams,
Have rambled10 wide. In country, city, seat
Of academic fame, howe’er deserved,
Long held, and scarcely disengaged at last.
But now with pleasant pace, a cleanlier road
I mean to tread. I feel myself at large,
Courageous11, and refreshed for future toil12,
If toil await me, or if dangers new.
Since pulpits fail, and sounding-boards reflect
Most part an empty ineffectual sound,
What chance that I, to fame so little known,
Nor conversant14 with men or manners much,
Should speak to purpose, or with better hope
Crack the satiric15 thong16? ’Twere wiser far
For me, enamoured of sequestered17 scenes,
And charmed with rural beauty, to repose18,
Where chance may throw me, beneath elm or vine
My languid limbs, when summer sears the plains;
Or when rough winter rages, on the soft
And sheltered Sofa, while the nitrous air
Feeds a blue flame and makes a cheerful hearth19;
There, undisturbed by folly20, and apprised21
How great the danger of disturbing her,
To muse22 in silence, or at least confine
Remarks that gall23 so many to the few,
My partners in retreat. Disgust concealed24
Is ofttimes proof of wisdom, when the fault
Is obstinate25, and cure beyond our reach.
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss26
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
Though few now taste thee unimpaired and pure,
Or, tasting, long enjoy thee, too infirm
Or too incautious to preserve thy sweets
Unmixed with drops of bitter, which neglect
Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup.
Thou art the nurse of virtue28. In thine arms
She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is,
Heaven-born, and destined29 to the skies again.
Thou art not known where Pleasure is adored,
That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist
And wandering eyes, still leaning on the arm
Of Novelty, her fickle31 frail32 support;
For thou art meek33 and constant, hating change,
And finding in the calm of truth-tried love
Joys that her stormy raptures34 never yield.
Forsaking36 thee, what shipwreck37 have we made
Of honour, dignity, and fair renown38,
Till prostitution elbows us aside
In all our crowded streets, and senates seem
Convened39 for purposes of empire less,
Than to release the adult’ress from her bond.
The adult’ress! what a theme for angry verse,
What provocation40 to the indignant heart
That feels for injured love! but I disdain41
The nauseous task to paint her as she is,
Cruel, abandoned, glorying in her shame.
No; let her pass, and charioted along
In guilty splendour shake the public ways;
The frequency of crimes has washed them white,
And verse of mine shall never brand the wretch42
Whom matrons now of character unsmirched
And chaste43 themselves, are not ashamed to own.
Virtue and vice44 had boundaries in old time
Not to be passed; and she that had renounced45
Her sex’s honour, was renounced herself
By all that prized it; not for prudery’s sake,
But dignity’s, resentful of the wrong.
’Twas hard, perhaps, on here and there a waif
Desirous to return, and not received;
But was a wholesome46 rigour in the main,
And taught the unblemished to preserve with care
That purity, whose loss was loss of all.
Men, too, were nice in honour in those days,
And judged offenders47 well. Then he that sharped,
And pocketed a prize by fraud obtained,
Was marked and shunned48 as odious49. He that sold
His country, or was slack when she required
His every nerve in action and at stretch,
Paid with the blood that he had basely spared
The price of his default. But now,—yes, now,
We are become so candid50 and so fair,
So liberal in construction, and so rich
In Christian51 charity (good-natured age!)
That they are safe, sinners of either sex,
Transgress52 what laws they may. Well dressed, well bred,
Well equipaged, is ticket good enough
To pass us readily through every door.
Hypocrisy53, detest54 her as we may
(And no man’s hatred55 ever wronged her yet),
May claim this merit still—that she admits
The worth of what she mimics56 with such care,
And thus gives virtue indirect applause;
But she has burnt her mask, not needed here,
Where vice has such allowance, that her shifts
And specious58 semblances59 have lost their use.
I was a stricken deer that left the herd60
Long since; with many an arrow deep infixt
My panting side was charged, when I withdrew
To seek a tranquil61 death in distant shades.
There was I found by one who had himself
Been hurt by the archers62. In his side he bore,
And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars.
With gentle force soliciting63 the darts64
He drew them forth65, and healed and bade me live.
Since then, with few associates, in remote
And silent woods I wander, far from those
My former partners of the peopled scene,
With few associates, and not wishing more.
Here much I ruminate66, as much I may,
With other views of men and manners now
Than once, and others of a life to come.
I see that all are wanderers, gone astray
Each in his own delusions67; they are lost
In chase of fancied happiness, still woo’d
And never won. Dream after dream ensues,
And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed: rings the world
With the vain stir. I sum up half mankind,
And add two-thirds of the remaining half,
And find the total of their hopes and fears
Dreams, empty dreams. The million flit as gay
As if created only, like the fly
That spreads his motley wings in the eye of noon,
To sport their season and be seen no more.
The rest are sober dreamers, grave and wise,
And pregnant with discoveries new and rare.
Some write a narrative68 of wars, and feats69
Of heroes little known, and call the rant70
A history; describe the man, of whom
His own coevals took but little note,
And paint his person, character, and views,
As they had known him from his mother’s womb;
They disentangle from the puzzled skein,
In which obscurity has wrapped them up,
The threads of politic71 and shrewd design
That ran through all his purposes, and charge
His mind with meanings that he never had,
Or, having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore
The solid earth, and from the strata72 there
Extract a register, by which we learn
That He who made it and revealed its date
To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Some, more acute and more industrious73 still,
Contrive74 creation; travel nature up
To the sharp peak of her sublimest75 height,
And tell us whence the stars; why some are fixt,
And planetary some; what gave them first
Rotation77, from what fountain flowed their light.
Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants, each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming78 both. And thus they spend
The little wick of life’s poor shallow lamp
In playing tricks with nature, giving laws
To distant worlds, and trifling79 in their own.
Is’t not a pity now, that tickling80 rheums
Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight
Of oracles81 like these? Great pity, too,
That having wielded82 the elements, and built
A thousand systems, each in his own way,
They should go out in fume84 and be forgot?
Ah, what is life thus spent? and what are they
But frantic85 who thus spend it? all for smoke—
Eternity86 for bubbles proves at last
A senseless bargain. When I see such games
Played by the creatures of a Power who swears
That He will judge the earth, and call the fool
To a sharp reckoning that has lived in vain,
And when I weigh this seeming wisdom well,
And prove it in the infallible result
So hollow and so false—I feel my heart
Dissolve in pity, and account the learned,
If this be learning, most of all deceived.
Great crimes alarm the conscience, but it sleeps
While thoughtful man is plausibly87 amused.
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I,
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up!
’Twere well, says one sage88 erudite, profound,
Terribly arched and aquiline89 his nose,
And overbuilt with most impending90 brows,
’Twere well could you permit the world to live
As the world pleases. What’s the world to you?—
Much. I was born of woman, and drew milk
As sweet as charity from human breasts.
I think, articulate, I laugh and weep,
And exercise all functions of a man.
How then should I and any man that lives
Be strangers to each other? Pierce my vein91,
Take of the crimson92 stream meandering93 there,
And catechise it well. Apply your glass,
Search it, and prove now if it be not blood
Congenial with thine own; and if it be,
What edge of subtlety95 canst thou suppose
Keen enough, wise and skilful96 as thou art,
To cut the link of brotherhood97, by which
One common Maker98 bound me to the kind?
True; I am no proficient99, I confess,
In arts like yours. I cannot call the swift
And perilous100 lightnings from the angry clouds,
And bid them hide themselves in the earth beneath;
I cannot analyse the air, nor catch
The parallax of yonder luminous101 point
That seems half quenched102 in the immense abyss:
Such powers I boast not—neither can I rest
A silent witness of the headlong rage,
Or heedless folly, by which thousands die,
Bone of my bone, and kindred souls to mine.
God never meant that man should scale the heavens
By strides of human wisdom. In His works,
Though wondrous104, He commands us in His Word
To seek Him rather where His mercy shines.
The mind indeed, enlightened from above,
Views Him in all; ascribes to the grand cause
The grand effect; acknowledges with joy
His manner, and with rapture35 tastes His style.
But never yet did philosophic105 tube,
That brings the planets home into the eye
Of observation, and discovers, else
Not visible, His family of worlds,
Discover Him that rules them; such a veil
Hangs over mortal eyes, blind from the birth,
And dark in things divine. Full often too
Our wayward intellect, the more we learn
Of nature, overlooks her Author more;
From instrumental causes proud to draw
Conclusions retrograde, and mad mistake:
But if His Word once teach us, shoot a ray
Through all the heart’s dark chambers106, and reveal
Truths undiscerned but by that holy light,
Then all is plain. Philosophy, baptised
In the pure fountain of eternal love,
Has eyes indeed; and, viewing all she sees
As meant to indicate a God to man,
Gives Him His praise, and forfeits107 not her own.
Learning has borne such fruit in other days
On all her branches. Piety108 has found
Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer
Has flowed from lips wet with Castalian dews.
Such was thy wisdom, Newton, childlike sage!
Sagacious reader of the works of God,
And in His Word sagacious. Such too thine,
Milton, whose genius had angelic wings,
And fed on manna. And such thine, in whom
Our British Themis gloried with just cause,
Immortal109 Hale! for deep discernment praised,
And sound integrity not more, than famed
For sanctity of manners undefiled.
All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades
Like the fair flower dishevelled in the wind;
Riches have wings, and grandeur111 is a dream;
The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
And we that worship him, ignoble112 graves.
Nothing is proof against the general curse
Of vanity, that seizes all below.
The only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue; the only lasting113 treasure, truth.
But what is truth? ’twas Pilate’s question put
To truth itself, that deigned114 him no reply.
And wherefore? will not God impart His light
To them that ask it?—Freely—’tis His joy,
His glory, and His nature to impart.
But to the proud, uncandid, insincere,
Or negligent115 inquirer, not a spark.
What’s that which brings contempt upon a book
And him that writes it, though the style be neat,
The method clear, and argument exact?
That makes a minister in holy things
The joy of many, and the dread116 of more,
His name a theme for praise and for reproach?—
That, while it gives us worth in God’s account,
Depreciates117 and undoes118 us in our own?
What pearl is it that rich men cannot buy,
That learning is too proud to gather up,
But which the poor and the despised of all
Seek and obtain, and often find unsought?
Tell me, and I will tell thee what is truth.
Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of man,
Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace,
Domestic life in rural leisure passed!
Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets,
Though many boast thy favours, and affect
To understand and choose thee for their own.
But foolish man foregoes his proper bliss,
Even as his first progenitor120, and quits,
Though placed in paradise, for earth has still
Some traces of her youthful beauty left,
Substantial happiness for transient joy.
Scenes formed for contemplation, and to nurse
The growing seeds of wisdom; that suggest,
By every pleasing image they present,
Reflections such as meliorate the heart,
Compose the passions, and exalt121 the mind;
Scenes such as these, ’tis his supreme122 delight
To fill with riot and defile110 with blood.
Should some contagion123, kind to the poor brutes124
We persecute125, annihilate126 the tribes
That draw the sportsman over hill and dale
Fearless, and rapt away from all his cares;
Should never game-fowl hatch her eggs again,
Nor baited hook deceive the fish’s eye;
Could pageantry, and dance, and feast, and song
Be quelled127 in all our summer months’ retreats;
How many self-deluded nymphs and swains,
Who dream they have a taste for fields and groves129,
Would find them hideous130 nurseries of the spleen,
And crowd the roads, impatient for the town!
They love the country, and none else, who seek
For their own sake its silence and its shade;
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Susceptible131 of pity, or a mind
Cultured and capable of sober thought,
For all the savage132 din13 of the swift pack,
And clamours of the field? Detested133 sport,
That owes its pleasures to another’s pain,
That feeds upon the sobs134 and dying shrieks135
Of harmless nature, dumb, but yet endued136
With eloquence137, that agonies inspire,
Of silent tears and heart-distending sighs!
Vain tears, alas138! and sighs that never find
A corresponding tone in jovial139 souls.
Well—one at least is safe. One sheltered hare
Has never heard the sanguinary yell
Of cruel man, exulting140 in her woes141.
Innocent partner of my peaceful home,
Whom ten long years’ experience of my care
Has made at last familiar, she has lost
Much of her vigilant142 instinctive143 dread,
Not needful here, beneath a roof like mine.
Yes—thou mayst eat thy bread, and lick the hand
That feeds thee; thou mayst frolic on the floor
At evening, and at night retire secure
To thy straw-couch, and slumber8 unalarmed;
For I have gained thy confidence, have pledged
All that is human in me to protect
Thine unsuspecting gratitude144 and love.
If I survive thee I will dig thy grave,
And when I place thee in it, sighing say,
I knew at least one hare that had a friend.
How various his employments, whom the world
Calls idle, and who justly in return
Esteems145 that busy world an idler, too!
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
Delightful146 industry enjoyed at home,
And nature in her cultivated trim
Dressed to his taste, inviting147 him abroad—
Can he want occupation who has these?
Will he be idle who has much to enjoy?
Me, therefore, studious of laborious148 ease,
Not slothful; happy to deceive the time,
Not waste it; and aware that human life
Is but a loan to be repaid with use,
When He shall call His debtors149 to account,
From whom are all our blessings150; business finds
Even here: while sedulous151 I seek to improve,
At least neglect not, or leave unemployed152,
The mind He gave me; driving it, though slack
Too oft, and much impeded153 in its work
By causes not to be divulged154 in vain,
To its just point—the service of mankind.
He that attends to his interior self,
That has a heart and keeps it; has a mind
That hungers and supplies it; and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,
Has business; feels himself engaged to achieve
No unimportant, though a silent task.
A life all turbulence155 and noise may seem,
To him that leads it, wise and to be praised;
But wisdom is a pearl with most success
Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies.
He that is ever occupied in storms,
Or dives not for it or brings up instead,
Vainly industrious, a disgraceful prize.
The morning finds the self-sequestered man
Fresh for his task, intend what task he may.
Whether inclement156 seasons recommend
His warm but simple home, where he enjoys,
With her who shares his pleasures and his heart,
Sweet converse157, sipping158 calm the fragrant159 lymph
Which neatly160 she prepares; then to his book
Well chosen, and not sullenly161 perused162
In selfish silence, but imparted oft
As aught occurs that she may smile to hear,
Or turn to nourishment163 digested well.
Or if the garden with its many cares,
All well repaid, demand him, he attends
The welcome call, conscious how much the hand
Of lubbard labour needs his watchful165 eye,
Oft loitering lazily if not o’erseen,
Or misapplying his unskilful strength.
Nor does he govern only or direct,
But much performs himself; no works indeed
That ask robust166 tough sinews, bred to toil,
Servile employ—but such as may amuse,
Not tire, demanding rather skill than force.
Proud of his well-spread walls, he views his trees
That meet, no barren interval167 between,
With pleasure more than even their fruits afford,
Which, save himself who trains them, none can feel.
These, therefore, are his own peculiar168 charge,
No meaner hand may discipline the shoots,
None but his steel approach them. What is weak,
Distempered, or has lost prolific169 powers,
Impaired27 by age, his unrelenting hand
Dooms170 to the knife. Nor does he spare the soft
And succulent that feeds its giant growth,
But barren, at the expense of neighbouring twigs171
Less ostentatious, and yet studded thick
With hopeful gems172. The rest, no portion left
That may disgrace his art, or disappoint
Large expectation, he disposes neat
At measured distances, that air and sun
Admitted freely may afford their aid,
And ventilate and warm the swelling173 buds.
Hence Summer has her riches, Autumn hence,
And hence even Winter fills his withered174 hand
With blushing fruits, and plenty not his own,
Fair recompense of labour well bestowed175
And wise precaution, which a clime so rude
Makes needful still, whose Spring is but the child
Of churlish Winter, in her froward moods
Discovering much the temper of her sire.
For oft, as if in her the stream of mild
Maternal176 nature had reversed its course,
She brings her infants forth with many smiles,
But, once delivered, kills them with a frown.
He therefore, timely warned, himself supplies
Her want of care, screening and keeping warm
The plenteous bloom, that no rough blast may sweep
His garlands from the boughs177. Again, as oft
As the sun peeps and vernal airs breathe mild,
The fence withdrawn178, he gives them ev’ry beam,
And spreads his hopes before the blaze of day.
To raise the prickly and green-coated gourd179,
So grateful to the palate, and when rare
So coveted180, else base and disesteemed—
Food for the vulgar merely—is an art
That toiling181 ages have but just matured,
And at this moment unessayed in song.
Yet gnats182 have had, and frogs and mice long since,
Their eulogy183; those sang the Mantuan bard164,
And these the Grecian in ennobling strains;
And in thy numbers, Philips, shines for aye
The solitary184 Shilling. Pardon then,
Ye sage dispensers of poetic185 fame!
The ambition of one meaner far, whose powers
Presuming an attempt not less sublime76,
Pant for the praise of dressing186 to the taste
Of critic appetite, no sordid187 fare,
A cucumber, while costly188 yet and scarce.
The stable yields a stercoraceous heap
Impregnated with quick fermenting189 salts,
And potent190 to resist the freezing blast.
For ere the beech191 and elm have cast their leaf
Deciduous192, and when now November dark
Checks vegetation in the torpid193 plant
Exposed to his cold breath, the task begins.
Warily194 therefore, and with prudent195 heed103
He seeks a favoured spot, that where he builds
The agglomerated196 pile, his frame may front
The sun’s meridian197 disk, and at the back
Enjoy close shelter, wall, or reeds, or hedge
Impervious198 to the wind. First he bids spread
Dry fern or littered hay, that may imbibe199
The ascending200 damps; then leisurely201 impose,
And lightly, shaking it with agile202 hand
From the full fork, the saturated203 straw.
What longest binds204 the closest, forms secure
The shapely side, that as it rises takes
By just degrees an overhanging breadth,
Sheltering the base with its projected eaves.
The uplifted frame compact at every joint205,
And overlaid with clear translucent206 glass,
He settles next upon the sloping mount,
Whose sharp declivity207 shoots off secure
From the dashed pane208 the deluge209 as it falls.
He shuts it close, and the first labour ends.
Thrice must the voluble and restless earth
Spin round upon her axle, ere the warmth
Slow gathering210 in the midst, through the square mass
Diffused211, attain212 the surface. When, behold213!
A pestilent and most corrosive214 steam,
Like a gross fog Boeotian, rising fast,
And fast condensed upon the dewy sash,
Asks egress215; which obtained, the overcharged
And drenched216 conservatory217 breathes abroad,
In volumes wheeling slow, the vapour dank,
And purified, rejoices to have lost
Its foul218 inhabitant. But to assuage219
The impatient fervour which it first conceives
Within its reeking220 bosom221, threatening death
To his young hopes, requires discreet222 delay.
Experience, slow preceptress, teaching oft
The way to glory by miscarriage223 foul,
Must prompt him, and admonish224 how to catch
The auspicious225 moment, when the tempered heat,
Friendly to vital motion, may afford
Soft fermentation, and invite the seed.
The seed selected wisely, plump and smooth
And glossy226, he commits to pots of size
Diminutive227, well filled with well-prepared
And fruitful soil, that has been treasured long,
And drunk no moisture from the dripping clouds:
These on the warm and genial94 earth that hides
The smoking manure228, and o’erspreads it all,
He places lightly, and, as time subdues229
The rage of fermentation, plunges230 deep
In the soft medium, till they stand immersed.
Then rise the tender germs upstarting quick
And spreading wide their spongy lobes231; at first
Pale, wan30, and livid; but assuming soon,
If fanned by balmy and nutritious232 air
Strained through the friendly mats, a vivid green.
Two leaves produced, two rough indented233 leaves,
Cautious he pinches from the second stalk
A pimple234, that portends235 a future sprout236,
And interdicts237 its growth. Thence straight succeed
The branches, sturdy to his utmost wish,
Prolific all, and harbingers of more.
The crowded roots demand enlargement now
And transplantation in an ampler space.
Indulged in what they wish, they soon supply
Large foliage238, overshadowing golden flowers,
Blown on the summit of the apparent fruit.
These have their sexes, and when summer shines
The bee transports the fertilising meal
From flower to flower, and even the breathing air
Wafts239 the rich prize to its appointed use.
Not so when winter scowls241. Assistant art
Then acts in nature’s office, brings to pass
The glad espousals and insures the crop.
Grudge242 not, ye rich (since luxury must have
His dainties, and the world’s more numerous half
Lives by contriving243 delicates for you),
Grudge not the cost. Ye little know the cares,
The vigilance, the labour, and the skill
That day and night are exercised, and hang
Upon the ticklish244 balance of suspense245,
That ye may garnish246 your profuse247 regales
With summer fruits, brought forth by wintry suns.
Ten thousand dangers lie in wait to thwart248
The process. Heat and cold, and wind and steam,
Moisture and drought, mice, worms, and swarming249 flies
Minute as dust and numberless, oft work
Dire57 disappointment that admits no cure,
And which no care can obviate250. It were long,
Too long to tell the expedients251 and the shifts
Which he, that fights a season so severe,
Devises, while he guards his tender trust,
And oft, at last, in vain. The learned and wise
Sarcastic252 would exclaim, and judge the song
Cold as its theme, and, like its theme, the fruit
Of too much labour, worthless when produced.
Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.
Unconscious of a less propitious253 clime
There blooms exotic beauty, warm and snug254,
While the winds whistle and the snows descend255.
The spiry256 myrtle with unwithering leaf
Shines there and flourishes. The golden boast
Of Portugal and Western India there,
The ruddier orange and the paler lime,
Peep through their polished foliage at the storm,
And seem to smile at what they need not fear.
The amomum there with intermingling flowers
And cherries hangs her twigs. Geranium boasts
Her crimson honours, and the spangled beau,
Ficoides, glitters bright the winter long,
All plants, of every leaf, that can endure
The winter’s frown if screened from his shrewd bite,
Live there and prosper257. Those Ausonia claims,
Levantine regions these; the Azores send
Their jessamine; her jessamine remote
Caffraria: foreigners from many lands,
They form one social shade, as if convened
By magic summons of the Orphean lyre.
Yet such arrangement, rarely brought to pass
But by a master’s hand, disposing well
The gay diversities of leaf and flower,
Must lend its aid to illustrate258 all their charms,
And dress the regular yet various scene.
Plant behind plant aspiring260, in the van
The dwarfish261, in the rear retired262, but still
Sublime above the rest, the statelier stand.
So once were ranged the sons of ancient Rome,
A noble show, while Roscius trod the stage;
And so, while Garrick, as renowned263 as he,
The sons of Albion, fearing each to lose
Some note of Nature’s music from his lips,
And covetous264 of Shakespeare’s beauty, seen
In every flash of his far-beaming eye.
Nor taste alone and well-contrived display
Suffice to give the marshalled ranks the grace
Of their complete effect. Much yet remains265
Unsung, and many cares are yet behind
And more laborious; cares on which depends
Their vigour266, injured soon, not soon restored.
The soil must be renewed, which often washed
Loses its treasure of salubrious salts,
And disappoints the roots; the slender roots,
Close interwoven where they meet the vase,
Must smooth be shorn away; the sapless branch
Must fly before the knife; the withered leaf
Must be detached, and where it strews267 the floor
Swept with a woman’s neatness, breeding else
Contagion, and disseminating268 death.
Discharge but these kind offices (and who
Would spare, that loves them, offices like these?)
Well they reward the toil. The sight is pleased,
The scent269 regaled, each odoriferous leaf,
Each opening blossom, freely breathes abroad
Its gratitude, and thanks him with its sweets.
So manifold, all pleasing in their kind,
All healthful, are the employs of rural life,
Reiterated270 as the wheel of time
Runs round, still ending, and beginning still.
Nor are these all. To deck the shapely knoll271
That, softly swelled272 and gaily273 dressed, appears
A flowery island from the dark green lawn
Emerging, must be deemed a labour due
To no mean hand, and asks the touch of taste.
Here also grateful mixture of well-matched
And sorted hues274 (each giving each relief,
And by contrasted beauty shining more)
Is needful. Strength may wield83 the ponderous275 spade,
May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home,
But elegance276, chief grace the garden shows
And most attractive, is the fair result
Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
Without it, all is Gothic as the scene
To which the insipid277 citizen resorts,
Near yonder heath; where industry misspent,
But proud of his uncouth278, ill-chosen task,
Has made a heaven on earth; with suns and moons
Of close-rammed stones has charged the encumbered279 soil,
And fairly laid the zodiac in the dust.
He, therefore, who would see his flowers disposed
Sightly and in just order, ere he gives
The beds the trusted treasure of their seeds,
Forecasts the future whole; that when the scene
Shall break into its preconceived display,
Each for itself, and all as with one voice
Conspiring280, may attest281 his bright design.
Nor even then, dismissing as performed
His pleasant work, may he suppose it done.
Few self-supported flowers endure the wind
Uninjured, but expect the upholding aid
Of the smooth-shaven prop119, and neatly tied
Are wedded282 thus, like beauty to old age,
For interest sake, the living to the dead.
Some clothe the soil that feeds them, far diffused
And lowly creeping, modest and yet fair;
Like virtue, thriving most where little seen.
Some, more aspiring, catch the neighbour shrub283
With clasping tendrils, and invest his branch,
Else unadorned, with many a gay festoon
And fragrant chaplet, recompensing well
The strength they borrow with the grace they lend.
All hate the rank society of weeds,
Noisome284, and very greedy to exhaust
The impoverished285 earth; an overbearing race,
That, like the multitude made faction-mad,
Disturb good order, and degrade true worth.
Oh blest seclusion286 from a jarring world,
Which he, thus occupied, enjoys! Retreat
Cannot, indeed, to guilty man restore
Lost innocence287, or cancel follies288 past;
But it has peace, and much secures the mind
From all assaults of evil; proving still
A faithful barrier, not o’erleaped with ease
By vicious custom raging uncontrolled
Abroad and desolating289 public life.
When fierce temptation, seconded within
By traitor290 appetite, and armed with darts
Tempered in hell, invades the throbbing291 breast,
To combat may be glorious, and success
Perhaps may crown us, but to fly is safe.
Had I the choice of sublunary good,
What could I wish that I possess not here?
Health, leisure; means to improve it, friendship, peace,
No loose or wanton though a wandering muse,
And constant occupation without care.
Thus blest, I draw a picture of that bliss;
Hopeless, indeed, that dissipated minds
And profligate292 abusers of a world
Created fair so much in vain for them,
Should seek the guiltless joys that I describe,
Allured293 by my report; but sure no less
That self-condemned they must neglect the prize,
And what they will not taste, must yet approve.
What we admire we praise; and when we praise
Advance it into notice, that, its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
I therefore recommend, though at the risk
Of popular disgust, yet boldly still,
The cause of piety and sacred truth
And virtue, and those scenes which God ordained294
Should best secure them and promote them most;
Scenes that I love, and with regret perceive
Forsaken295, or through folly not enjoyed.
Pure is the nymph, though liberal of her smiles,
And chaste, though unconfined, whom I extol296.
Not as the prince in Shushan, when he called,
Vain-glorious of her charms, his Vashti forth,
To grace the full pavilion. His design
Was but to boast his own peculiar good,
Which all might view with envy, none partake.
My charmer is not mine alone; my sweets,
And she that sweetens all my bitters, too,
Nature, enchanting297 Nature, in whose form
And lineaments divine I trace a hand
That errs298 not, and find raptures still renewed,
Is free to all men—universal prize.
Strange that so fair a creature should yet want
Admirers, and be destined to divide
With meaner objects even the few she finds.
Stript of her ornaments299, her leaves and flowers,
She loses all her influence. Cities then
Attract us, and neglected Nature pines,
Abandoned, as unworthy of our love.
But are not wholesome airs, though unperfumed
By roses, and clear suns, though scarcely felt,
And groves, if unharmonious yet secure
From clamour and whose very silence charms,
To be preferred to smoke—to the eclipse
That Metropolitan301 volcanoes make,
Whose Stygian throats breathe darkness all day long,
And to the stir of commerce, driving slow,
And thundering loud with his ten thousand wheels?
They would be, were not madness in the head
And folly in the heart; were England now
What England was, plain, hospitable302, kind,
And undebauched. But we have bid farewell
To all the virtues303 of those better days,
And all their honest pleasures. Mansions304 once
Knew their own masters, and laborious hands
That had survived the father, served the son.
Now the legitimate305 and rightful lord
Is but a transient guest, newly arrived
And soon to be supplanted306. He that saw
His patrimonial307 timber cast its leaf,
Sells the last scantling, and transfers the price
To some shrewd sharper, ere it buds again.
Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile,
Then advertised, and auctioneered away.
The country starves, and they that feed the o’er-charged
And surfeited308 lewd309 town with her fair dues,
By a just judgment310 strip and starve themselves.
The wings that waft240 our riches out of sight
Grow on the gamester’s elbows, and the alert
And nimble motion of those restless joints311,
That never tire, soon fans them all away.
Improvement too, the idol312 of the age,
Is fed with many a victim. Lo! he comes—
The omnipotent313 magician, Brown, appears.
Down falls the venerable pile, the abode314
Of our forefathers315, a grave whiskered race,
But tasteless. Springs a palace in its stead,
But in a distant spot; where more exposed
It may enjoy the advantage of the North
And aguish East, till time shall have transformed
Those naked acres to a sheltering grove128.
He speaks. The lake in front becomes a lawn,
Woods vanish, hills subside316, and valleys rise,
And streams, as if created for his use,
Pursue the track of his directed wand
Sinuous317 or straight, now rapid and now slow,
Now murmuring soft, now roaring in cascades318,
Even as he bids. The enraptured319 owner smiles.
’Tis finished. And yet, finished as it seems,
Still wants a grace, the loveliest it could show,
A mine to satisfy the enormous cost.
Drained to the last poor item of his wealth,
He sighs, departs, and leaves the accomplished320 plan
That he has touched and retouched, many a day
Laboured, and many a night pursued in dreams,
Just when it meets his hopes, and proves the heaven
He wanted, for a wealthier to enjoy.
And now perhaps the glorious hour is come,
When having no stake left, no pledge to endear
Her interests, or that gives her sacred cause
A moment’s operation on his love,
He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal321
To serve his country. Ministerial grace
Deals him out money from the public chest,
Or, if that mine be shut, some private purse
Supplies his need with an usurious loan,
To be refunded322 duly, when his vote,
Well-managed, shall have earned its worthy300 price.
Oh, innocent compared with arts like these,
Crape and cocked pistol and the whistling ball
Sent through the traveller’s temples! He that finds
One drop of heaven’s sweet mercy in his cup,
Can dig, beg, rot, and perish well-content,
So he may wrap himself in honest rags
At his last gasp323; but could not for a world
Fish up his dirty and dependent bread
From pools and ditches of the commonwealth324,
Sordid and sickening at his own success.
Ambition, avarice325, penury326 incurred327
By endless riot, vanity, the lust259
Of pleasure and variety, despatch328,
As duly as the swallows disappear,
The world of wandering knights329 and squires330 to town;
London engulfs331 them all. The shark is there,
And the shark’s prey332; the spendthrift, and the leech333
That sucks him. There the sycophant334, and he
That with bare-headed and obsequious335 bows
Begs a warm office, doomed336 to a cold jail
And groat per diem if his patron frown.
The levee swarms337, as if in golden pomp
Were charactered on every statesman’s door,
‘Battered and bankrupt fortunes mended here.’
These are the charms that sully and eclipse
The charms of nature. ’Tis the cruel gripe
That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts338,
The hope of better things, the chance to win,
The wish to shine, the thirst to be amused,
That, at the sound of Winter’s hoary339 wing,
Unpeople all our counties of such herds340
Of fluttering, loitering, cringing341, begging, loose
And wanton vagrants342, as make London, vast
And boundless343 as it is, a crowded coop.
Oh thou resort and mart of all the earth,
Chequered with all complexions344 of mankind,
And spotted345 with all crimes; in whom I see
Much that I love, and more that I admire,
And all that I abhor346; thou freckled347 fair
That pleases and yet shocks me, I can laugh
And I can weep, can hope, and can despond,
Feel wrath348 and pity when I think on thee!
Ten righteous would have saved a city once,
And thou hast many righteous.—Well for thee—
That salt preserves thee; more corrupted349 else,
And therefore more obnoxious350 at this hour
Than Sodom in her day had power to be,
For whom God heard his Abram plead in vain.
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wretch
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