SONNET. APOLOGY FOR RETIREMENT, 1766. John Scott 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 pp. 127-128. 4v. ; 8⁰.

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SONNET . APOLOGY FOR RETIREMENT , 1766. BY THE SAME . WHY asks my Friend what chears the passing day , Where these lone fields my rural home inclose ; That me no scenes the pompous city shows Lure from that rural residence away ? Now thro' my laurel groves I musing stray , Now breathe the gale that o'er the lilac blows , Now in my grotto's solemn cells repose , Or down the smooth vale wind at evening gray ; Now charms the lofty Poet's tuneful lay , Where Music fraught with fair Instruction flows ; Now Delia's converse makes the moments gay , The nymph for love and innocence I chose : O Friend ! the man who joys like these can taste On Vice and Folly needs no hour to waste .