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125With whom in easy commerce to pursue
Nature's free charms, and vie for sylvan fame;
A fair ambition; void of strife or guile,
Or jealousy, or pain to be outdone.
Who plans th' enchanted garden, who directs
130The visto best, and best conducts the stream;
Whose groves the fastest thicken and ascend;
Whom first the welcome spring salutes; who shews
The earliest bloom, the sweetest proudest charms,
Of Flora; who best gives Pomona's juice
135To match the sprightly genius of Champain.
Thrice happy days! in rural business past.
Blest winter nights! when, as the genial fire
Chears the wide hall, his cordial family
With soft domestic arts the hours beguile,
140And pleasing talk that starts no timerous fame,
With witless wantoness to hunt it down: