Seed-time and harvest-home and vintage wakes—

Your holidays are nothing worth to us.

Our rivers roll with luxury, our vats

O'erflow with nectar, which providing Jove

Showers down by cataracts; the very gutters

From our house-tops spout wine, vast forests wave,

Whose very leaves drop fatness, smoking viands

Like mountains rise.—All nature's one great feast. —Cumberland.


Philemon. (Book vii. § 32, p. 453.)