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Written at an INN on a particular Occasion.
1 TO thee, fair Freedom! I retire,
2 From flattery, feasting, dice, and din;
3 Nor art thou found in domes much higher
4 Than the low cot, or humble inn.
5 'Tis here with boundless power I reign,
6 And every health which I begin,
7 Converts dull port to bright champain;
8 For Freedom crowns it at an inn.
9 I fly from pomp, I fly from plate,
10 I fly from Falshood's specious grin;
11 Freedom I love, and form I hate,
12 And chuse my lodgings at an inn.
13 Here, waiter! take my sordid ore,
14 Which Iacqueys else might hope to win;
15 It buys what courts have not in store,
16 It buys me Freedom, at an inn.
17 And now once more I shape my way
18 Thro' rain or shine, thro' thick or thin,
19 Secure to meet, at close of day,
20 With kind reception — at an inn.
21 Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,
22 Where'er his various tour has been,
23 May sigh to think how oft he found
24 His warmest welcome — at an inn.
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Author: William Shenstone
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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. V. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 51-52. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.005) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)
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