And rustic bliss to foster and partake.
He was a man who never in his Life,
For Joy or Business, left his charming wife;
To all her failings, if she had them, blind,
He saw her faultless, and he felt her kind.
With undirected, unaspiring Views,
He scorn’d Oppression, but he took his Dues;
For rural Works he shew’d some trifling Skill, 80}
And little prone to either Good or ill. }
His Heart was kind, but cool; his Passions right, but still. }