Of each domestic charity fulfilled,

And sufferings meekly borne—I, for my part,

Though with the silence pleased that[564] here prevails,

Among those fair recitals also range,

Soothed by the natural spirit which they breathe.

And, in the centre of a world whose soil

Is rank with all unkindness, compassed round

With such memorials, I have sometimes felt,

It was[565] no momentary happiness

To have one Enclosure where the voice that speaks