His frequent visits seldom fail’d to please;
Easy himself, he sought his neighbour’s ease:
To a small garden with delight he came,
And gave successive flowers a summer’s fame;
These he presented, with a grace his own,
To his fair friends, and made their beauties known,
Not without moral compliment; how they
“Like flowers were sweet, and must like flowers decay.’
Simple he was, and loved the simple truth,
Yet had some useful cunning from his youth;