Where gay content with healthy temperance meets,

And learning intermixes all its sweets;

Where friendship, elegance, and arts unite

To make the hours glide social, easy, bright:

He tastes the converse of the purest mind:

Though mild, yet manly: and though plain, refined;

And through the moral world expatiates wide

Truth as his end, and virtue as his guide.


CHAPTER VI.
The influence of solitude on the passions.