His life is pure that wears no fouler stains. 100

But if thro’ genuine tenderness of heart,

Or secret want of relish for the game,

You shun the glories of the chace, nor care

To haunt the peopled stream; the garden yields

A soft amusement, an humane delight. 105

To raise th’ insipid nature of the ground;

Or tame its savage genius to the grace

Of careless sweet rusticity, that seems

The amiable result of happy chance,