How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

But grant me still a friend in my retreat,

Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.

Retirement. Line 739.

A kick that scarce would move a horse

May kill a sound divine.

The Yearly Distress.

I am monarch of all I survey,

My right there is none to dispute.

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.