Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . l our recreation! Oh, how happy heres our leisure! Oh, how innocent our pleasure! ***** Dear solitude, the souls best friend, That man acquainted with himself doth make! *From a poem that Flossofer Daniel Dove used to read withpeculiar satisfaction. See Southets The Doctor, <&c., page 60 of Har-pers edition. WOULD MEN LET ME ALONE/ 27l *******How calm and quiet a delightIs it aloneTo read and meditate and write. By none offended and of
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . l our recreation! Oh, how happy heres our leisure! Oh, how innocent our pleasure! ***** Dear solitude, the souls best friend, That man acquainted with himself doth make! *From a poem that Flossofer Daniel Dove used to read withpeculiar satisfaction. See Southets The Doctor, <&c., page 60 of Har-pers edition. WOULD MEN LET ME ALONE/ 27l *******How calm and quiet a delightIs it aloneTo read and meditate and write. By none offended and offending none ITo walk, ride, sit, or sleep at ones own ease,And pleasing ones own self, none other to displease! * Lord 1 would men let me aloneWhat an ever-happy one Should I think myself to be I ^ Might I, in this desert place, | Which most men in discourse disgrace, \ Live but undisturbed and free!Here in this despised recess. Would I, mauger winters cold,-And the summers worst excess. Try to live out to sixty full years old!And all the while. Without an envious eyeOn any thriving under fortunes smile. Contented live, and then—contented diel,. MOTTOES FOR SHiPTER II W^her) the muses nirje With thje virtues rgeefe,Fir)d to their degigg ^n Atlantic seat,©y gpeer) opchjard boughs Fended from thje hjeat,\S/^here th)e statesrqan ploughs Furrows for the -wheat;^^D^en tl;)e churcb) is moral -worth,When tlje state«hou§e is the heaptlj,-Theq tlje perfect state is corrje, Thje republicar) at V)orr)e. Emerson. [^ow caq h)e get -wisdorr) that Ijoldetl-) th)e plow, thatglorieth iq the goad, that driveth oxer), ar)d is occupiedwith) the care of bullocks f 273
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