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Proud crested Fiend, the World's worst foe, Ambition, canst thou boast one deed, Whence no unsightly horrors flow, Nor private peace is seen to bleed? - [Ambition] The kindly intercourse will ever prove A bond of amity and social love. - [Intercourse] The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolence warms Is an angel who lives but to bless. - [Benevolence] Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book. - Farmer's Boy--Spring (l. 31) [Students] Love in a shower safe shelter took, In a rosy bower beside a brook, And winked and nodded with conscious pride To his votaries drenched on the other side. Come hither, sweet maids, there's a bridge below, The toll-keeper, Hymen, will let you through. Come over the stream to me. - Glee (st. 1) [Love] Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall; Did I not see, did I not feel. That One Great Spirit governs all. O Heaven, permit that I may lie Where o'er my corse green branches wave; And those who from life's tumults fly With kindred feelings press my grave. - Love of the Country (st. 4) [Grave] Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms; Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms. - Nancy (st. 4) [Kisses] E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live. - The Drunken Father (st. 18) [Innocence] When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts and groves dismantled roar; Around their home the storm-pinched cattle lows, No nourishment in frozen pasture grows; Yet frozen pastures every morn resound With fair abundance thund'ring to the ground. - The Farmer's Boy--Winter (st. 2) [Winter]
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