SONNET. FOR THE ROOT-HOUSE AT WREST. Thomas Edwards Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T116245 1137 K093079.004 Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London printed for G. Pearch 1770 p. 49. 4v. ; 8⁰.

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SONNET . FOR THE ROOT-HOUSE AT WREST . BY THOMAS EDWARDS , ESQ . STRANGER , or guest , whome'er this hallow'd grove Shall chance receive , where sweet contentment dwells , Bring here no heart that with ambition swells , With avarice pines , or burns with lawless love : Vice-tainted souls will all in vain remove To sylvan shades , and hermits' peaceful cells , In vain will seek retirement's lenient spells , Or hope that bliss , which only good men prove : If heaven-born truth , and sacred virtue's lore , Which chear , adorn , and dignify the mind , Are constant inmates of thy honest breast , If , unrepining at thy neighbour's store , Thou count'st as thine the good of all mankind , Then welcome share the friendly groves of Wrest .