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By him a river constantly complains,

The birds above rejoice with various strains,
And in the solemn scene their orgies keep,
Like dreams, mix'd with the gravity of sleep;
Sleep, which does always there for entrance wait,
And nought within against it shuts the gate.
Nor does the roughest season of the sky,
Or sullen Jove, all sports to him deny.

He runs the mazes of the nimble hare,

His well-mouth'd dogs' glad concert rends the air; Or with game bolder, and rewarded more,

He drives into a toil the foaming boar;

Here flies the hawk t' assault, and there the net

To intercept, the travailing fowl, is set ;
And all his malice, all his craft, is shown

In innocent wars on beasts and birds alone.>
This is the life from all misfortunes free,

From thee, the great one, tyrant Love, from thee;
And, if a chaste and clean, though homely, wife
Be added to the blessings of this life,-

Such as the ancient sun-burnt Sabins were,

Such as Apulia, frugal still, does bear,

Who makes her children and the house her care,
And joyfully the work of life does share,
Nor thinks herself too noble or too fine
To pin the sheepfold or to milk the kine;
Who waits at door against her husband come
From rural duties, late and wearied, home,
Where she receives him with a kind embrace,
A cheerful fire, and a more cheerful face;

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