From the green Terrace on the higher Ground,
With Flowers in Knolls on many a sunny Bank,
Where the white flocks o’er velvet Pasture bound;
Where Gold-fish long possess’d their marble Tank,
And steeds with silky Sides the living Water drank.
It was a lovely and a rich domain,
Vex’d by no Debt, no Mortgage, no Decrease;
No Tenant came with unredress’d Complaint 30
Of Churlish Steward or of rigorous Lease;
In the fair Village dwelt perpetual Peace,