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  • The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
    Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
    Where all his long anxieties forgot
    Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
    Or recollected only to gild o'er
    And add a smile to what was sweet before,
    He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
    Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
    Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
    And having lived a trifler, die a man.

    William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146