For not writing once, since from Clumpsted I came;

But, what with the whirl and confusion of town,

I declare I have scarcely had time to sit down.

We are now in "The Season;" by fashion's blest laws

Always fix'd at this point of the twelvemonth, because

To mope in the country's a terrible thing,

With nothing to watch but the progress of Spring,

As its cowslips and primroses burst from the ground,

And nought but the chirps of the wood-birds resound.

But how different London—one scene of delight!