Where the good widow schools her infant-race.

Shops, whence are heard the hammer and the saw,

And village-pleasures unreproved by law:

Then how serene! when in your favourite room,

Gales from your jasmines soothe the evening gloom;

When from your upland paddock you look down,

And just perceive the smoke which hides the town;

When weary peasants at the close of day

Walk to their cots, and part upon the way;

When cattle slowly cross the shallow brook,