...home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline , Retreats from care , that never must be mine , How blest is he who crowns , in shades like...where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches , born to work and weep , Explore the mine , or tempt the...

...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine ! How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour...where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the...

...bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How bless'd is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world wh^re strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born...

...home at last. O bleat retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,...where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, leams to fly ? For him no wretches, bom to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous...

...from care, that never must be mine ! How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try — And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. 102 For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the...

...care, that never must be mine', How blest is he who crowns in shades like these' 60 A youth of labor', with an age of ease ! Who quits a world where strong temptations try', And', since 'tis hard to combat', learns to fly' ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep', Explore the mine', or tempt...

...home at last. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreat from cares, that never must be mine ! How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to...

...bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease." GOLDSMITH. AN elderly man once expressed to me his sense of declining life, by saying, " My birth-days...

...first she flew I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of case ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis , d to...

...blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine ; How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour...where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the...