Cheering my days, and with industrious thought;
With the ever-welcome[427] company of books;
With[428] virtuous friendship's soul-sustaining aid,
And with the blessings of domestic love.
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Thus occupied in mind I paced along,
Following the rugged road, by sledge or wheel
Worn in the moorland,[GC] till I overtook
My two Associates, in the morning sunshine
Halting together on a rocky knoll,