One Self-approving Hour Whole Years Outweighs.

Happy The Man Whose Wish And Care A Few Paternal Acres Bound, Content To Breathe His Native Air In His Own Ground.

He Knows To Live Who Keeps The Middle State, And Neither Leans On This Side Nor On That.

For When Success A Lover's Toil Attends,few Ask, If Fraud Or Force Attain'd His Ends

As Some To Church Repair, Not For The Doctrine, But The Music There.

Alas! The Small Discredit Of A Bribe Scarce Hurts The Lawyer, But Undoes The Scribe.