80 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS
Thus Let Me Live
HAPPY the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread9
Whose flocks supply him with attire ;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter, fire.
Blest who can unconcernedly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,
Sound sleep by night ; study and ease
Together mixed ; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown ;
Thus, un lamented, let me die ;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie,
Alexander Pope
To Little Peggy
MY noble lovely little Peggy,
Let this, my first epistle, beg yeğ
At dawn of mom and close of even*
To lift your heart and hands to heaven,
And, dearest child, along the day,
In everything you do and say,
Obey and please my lord and lady#
So God shall love and angels aid ye.
If to these precepts you attend
No second letter need I send,
And so I rest your constant friend*
Matthew Prior
Quit
To John I owed great obligation ;
But John unhappily thought fit
To publish It to all the nation :
Sure Jokn and I are more than quitr
Matthew Prior