Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
epistle to rraham, esq., of fintry
requesting a favour
when nature her great master-piece design'd,
and fram'd her st, best work, the human mind,
her eye i on all the mazy pn,
she form'd of various parts the various man.
then first she calls the useful many forth;
pin plodding industry, and sober worth:
thence peasants, farmers, native sons of earth,
and merdise' whole genus take their birth:
each prudent cit a warm existence finds,
and all meics' many-apron'd kinds.
some other rarer sorts are wanted yet,
the lead and buoy are ne
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