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Remote from cities dwelt a swain	A
Unvexed by petty cares of gain	A
His head was silvered and by age	B
He had contented grown and sage	B
In summer's heat and winter's cold	C
He fed his flock and penned his fold	C
Devoid of envy or ambition	D
So had he won a proud position	D
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A deep philosopher whose rules	E
Of moral life were drawn from schools	E
With wonder sought this shepherd's nest	F
And his perplexity expressed	F
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Whence is thy wisdom Hath thy toil	G
O'er books consumed the midnight oil	G
Communed o'er Greek and Roman pages	H
With Plato Socrates those sages	I
Or fathomed Tully or hast travelled	J
With wise Ulysses and unravelled	J
Of customs half a mundane sphere	K
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The shepherd answered him I ne'er	L
From books or from mankind sought learning	M
For both will cheat the most discerning	M
The more perplexed the more they view	N
In the wide fields of false and true	N
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I draw from Nature all I know	O
To virtue friend to vice a foe	O
The ceaseless labour of the bee	P
Prompted my soul to industry	P
The wise provision of the ant	J
Made me for winter provident	J
My trusty dog there showed the way	Q
And to be true I copy Tray	Q
Then for domestic hallowed love	R
I learnt it of the cooing dove	R
And love paternal followed when	S
I marked devotion in the hen	S
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Nature then prompted me to school	T
My tongue from scorn and ridicule	T
And never with important mien	U
In conversation to o'erween	U
I learnt some lessons from the fowls	I
To shun solemnity from owls	I
Another lesson from the pie	V
Pert and pretentious and as sly	V
And to detest man's raids and mulctures	I
From eagles kites goshawks and vultures	I
But most of all abhorrence take	W
From the base toad or viler snake	W
With filthy venom in the bite	J
Of envies jealousies and spite	J
Thus from Dame Nature and Creation	U
Have I deduced my observation	U
Nor found I ever thing so mean	U
That gave no moral thence to glean	U
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Then the philosopher replied	J
Thy fame re echoed far and wide	J
Is just and true for books misguide	J
As full as man himself of pride	J
But Nature rightly studied leads	I
To noble thoughts and worthy deeds	I

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