The food that suits it most; so does each clime. 300

Far in the horrid realms of winter, where

Th’ establish’d ocean heaps a monstrous waste

Of shining rocks and mountains to the pole;

There lives a hardy race, whose plainest wants

Relentless earth, their cruel step-mother, 305

Regards not. On the waste of iron fields,

Untam’d, untractable, no harvests wave:

Pomona hates them, and the clownish God

Who tends the garden. In this frozen world