What, if no grievous fears their lives annoy,
Is it not worse no prospects to enjoy?
’Tis cheerless living in such bounded view,
With nothing dreadful, but with nothing new;
Nothing to bring them joy, to make them weep, -
The day itself is, like the night, asleep;
Or on the sameness if a break be made,
’Tis by some pauper to his grave convey’d;
By smuggled news from neighb’ring village told,
News never true, or truth a twelvemonth old;