The careful peasant plies the sinewy arm,

Warm’d as he works, and casts his look around

On every foot of that improving ground :

It is his own he sees; his master’s eye

Peers not about, some secret fault to spy;

Nor voice severe is there, nor censure known; -

Hope, profit, pleasure, - they are all his own.

Here grow the humble cives, and, hard by them,

The leek with crown globose and reedy stem;

High climb his pulse in many an even row,