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'Restraint's foul manacles his pleasures maim; 'Selected guests selected phrases claim :

'Nor reigns that joy, when hand in hand they join,

'That good old Master felt in shaking mine.

'HEAVEN bless his memory! bless his honour'd name!

"(The Poor will speak his lasting worthy fame :)
'To souls fair-purpos'd strength and guidance give;
'In pity to us still let goodness live:

'Let labour have its due! my cot shall be

'From chilling want and guilty murmurs free:

Let labour have its due; then peace is mine,

And never, never shall

my

heart repine,'

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AUTUMN.

ARGUMENT.

Acorns. Hogs in the Wood. Wheat-sowing. The Church. Village Girls. The mad Girl. The BirdBoy's Hut. Disappointment; Reflections, &c. Euston-hall. Fox-hunting. Old Trouncer. Long Nights. A Welcome to Winter.

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AGAIN, the year's decline, midst storms and floods,

The thundering chase, the yellow fading woods,
Invite my song; that fain would boldly tell
Of upland coverts, and the echoing dell,

By turns resounding loud, at eve and morn
The swineherd's halloo, or the huntsman's horn.

No more the fields with scatter'd grain supply The restless wandering tenants of the STY;

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