The farmer's boy; a rural poem / By Robert Bloomfield. With ornaments engraved in wood by Anderson.

  • Robert Bloomfield
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The farmer's boy; a rural poem / By Robert Bloomfield. With ornaments engraved in wood by Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v.27. Euston in Suffolk, and its neighbourhood, the Scene. a — 2 a ic acitiiaiey Twas thus with Gries: meek, fatherless, and poor; Labour his portion, but he felt no more; _ No stripes, no tyranny his steps pursu’d;, His life was constant, cheerful, eM Strange to acon, he wore a bashful look, The Fields his study, Nature was his book; And, as revolving SEASONS chang’d the scene _ From heat to cold, tempestuous to serene, Though every china still varied his employ, Yet each new duty brought its share of joy. Where noble Grarron spreads his rich domains, Round Euston’s water’d vale, and sloping plains, Where woods and groves in solemn grandeur rise, Where the kite brooding, unmolested flies ; The woodcock and the painted pheasant race, And sculking foxes, destin’d for the chace; There Giles, untaught and unrepining, stray’d _ Through every copse, and grove, and winding glade;
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