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And if, amid this dear delight,
My thoughts did home rebound,
I well might reckon it a slight
To the high cheer I found.


Oblivion here thy wisdom is,
Thy thrift, the sleep of cares;
For a proud idleness like this
Crowns all thy mean affairs.