ARGUMENT. An Invitation, v. 1. The approach to a Villa defcribed, v. 5. V. 63. The dining-room, v. 83. v. 89. V. 111. A cold bath, v. 101. The library, An ice-house, A winter-walk, v. 157. A fummer walk, v. 169. The invitation renewed, v. 203. Conclufion, v. 211. Has clafs'd the infect-tribes of human-kind, Each with its bufy hum, or gilded wing, Its fubtle web-work, or its venom'd sting; Let me, to claim a few unvalued hours, 5 Point the green lane that leads thro' fern and flowers; The shelter'd gate that opens to my field, And the white front thro' mingling elms reveal'd.. In vain, alas, a village-friend invites To fimple comforts, and domeftic rites, When the gay months of Carnival resume 10 Their annual round of glitter and perfume; When Bond-street hails thee to its splendid mart, Its hives of fweets, and cabinets of art; And, lo, majestic as thy manly song, 15 Flows the full tide of human life along. Still muft my partial pencil love to dwell On the home-profpects of my hermit cell; The moffy pales that fkirt the orchard-green, Here hid by shrub-wood, there by glimpses feen; 20 And the brown pathway, that, with careless flow, Sinks, and is loft among the trees below. |