Sweetly thou mayst thy vacant hours possess

In Hampstead, courted by the western wind;

Or Greenwich, waving o’er the winding flood; 120

Or lose the world amid the sylvan wilds

Of Dulwich, yet by barbarous arts unspoil’d.

Green rise the Kentish hills in chearful air;

But on the marshy plains that Essex spreads

Build not, nor rest too long thy wandering feet. 125

For on a rustic throne of dewy turf,

With baneful fogs her aching temples bound,