Who see what you admire, and laugh at all they see?

True, their opinion alters not my fate,

By falsely judging of an humble state:

This garden you with such delight behold,

Tempts not a feeble dame who dreads the cold;

These plants which please so well your livelier sense,

To mine but little of their sweets dispense:

Books soon are painful to my failing sight,

And oftener read from duty than delight;

(Yet let me own, that I can sometimes find