Nor let vile balks deform the plain,

Nor bushes on your headland grow,

Nor briers a sloven culture show.

Neat be your barns, your houses sweet;

Your paths be clean, your dooryards neat;

No moss the sheltering roof enshroud,

No wooden panes the windows cloud;

No sink drains should above ground flow,

Nor weeds with rankling poison grow;

But flowers expand, and fruit-trees bloom,