Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823 / 2008-06-20 00:00:00

EBOOK THE FARMER'S BOY ***


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THE FARMER'S BOY;
A RURAL POEM.
By ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.

"A SHEPHERD'S BOY ... HE SEEKS NO BETTER NAME."

The Third Edition
LONDON:
Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry
and sold by T.C. Rickman, 7, Upper Mary-Le-Bone-Street;
Ingram, and Dingle, Bury; Booth, Norwich; Hill, Edinburgh;
Archer, and Dugdale, Dublin.
MDCCC

A sonnet has come to my hands, the production,--and nearly the first
poetical Production,--of a very young Lady. I have not the Author's
consent to publish it: and there is no time to ask it. But I cannot omit
adding such a flower to the Wreath of Glory of my Friend. I have therefore
ventured to publish it without waiting permission; with one or two slight
alterations.
C. L.
25 Aug. 1800.

TO THE AUTHOR OF
THE FARMER'S BOY.
I.
_If wealth, if honour, at command were mine,
And every boast Ambition could desire,
The pompous Gifts, sweet Bard, I would resign
For the aft Music of thy tuneful Lyre,_
II.
_Which speaks the soul awake to every charm
That Nature open'd from thy humble cot:
Speaks powers chill Indigence could not disarm;
Proof to Humanity's severest lot._
III.
_Thou Friend to Nature, and of Man the Friend;
Of every generous and benignant cause;
The accents of thy glowing worth, unfeign'd,
Live in the cadence of each feeling pause.
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