“Too harsh, perhaps, to please politer Ears,

Yet much the sweetest Tune the Farmer hears:”

or when he compares the haymakers to sparrows at the approach of storm,—

“Thus have I seen, on a bright Summer’s Day,

On some green Brake, a Flock of Sparrows play;

From Twig to Twig, from Bush to Bush they fly;

And with continued Chirping fill the Sky:

But, on a sudden, if a Storm appears,

Their chirping Noise no longer dins our Ears.

They fly for Shelter to the thickest Bush,