Sounds which the wandering shepherd from these heights

Hears, and forgets his purpose;—furnished thus,

How can you droop, if willing to be upraised?[351]

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"A piteous lot it were to flee from Man—

Yet not rejoice in Nature. He, whose hours

Are by domestic pleasures uncaressed

And unenlivened; who exists whole years

Apart from benefits received or done

'Mid the transactions of the bustling crowd;