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Then envy not , thrice happy men , The glories of the sword or pen , While your bright keel , aslant the glen , Parts the brown foam , From fragrant lark-song hours , to when The rooks cloud home .
Knew ye in what sweet rays , ye bask , Would Toil for Pride's cold splendours ask > The veriest trifler has his task , To which your pain , Could ye but lift the smiling mask , Were more than gain . Little it is that life requires , Little that innocence desires :
Health-giving temperance never tires Of simplest food ; And less the grape ' s rich blood inspires Than the pure flood . Yours is life's longest pilgrimage ,
Fresh youth , bold manhood , vigorous age ; Remote from scenes of factious rage And courtly art , Ye act , upon your daisied stage , A happier part .
Rarely it falls to courtier ' s lot , To know the love that lights the cot ; Domestic happiness is not With diamonds found , So oft as in that lowly spot Of fire-side ground .
Health with his cheek of ruddy brown , Spirits that fly the murky town , Sound sleep , oblivion ' s eider-down , All these are yours ; And how can the witch , Fortune , frown Throusrh horse-shoed doors ?
Should ye to proud book-lore aspire , What interdicts the high desire ? A Scottish peasant smote the lyre , His plough behind—And , envying not his fatal fire , Revere his mind /
He shew'd — what many since have shewn—Knowledge has no exclusive zone , No proud aristocratic throne , Whence with disdain She views , and scornp to heed or own , The peasant-train .
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/15/