My lot has been amid the wild, fresh scenes
Of Nature's wide domain; where all is free.
Life seems t' inhale the vigorous breath required
To struggle with the elements around,
And thus keeps Time at bay. Like good old Boone,
The patriarch hunter, in the forest wilds
I've found that God supplied, and healed, and blessed.
Men live too fast in cities.
MARGRAVE.
Not if they