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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
So manifold, all pleasing in their kind, All healthful, are the employs of rural life, Reiterated as the wheel of time, Runs round; still e…
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn T…
From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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