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O happy pleasure! here to dwellBeside thee in some heathy dell;Adopt your homely ways and dress,A Shepherd, thou a Shepherdess!But I could frame a wish for theeMore like a grave reality:Thou art to me but as a waveOf the wild sea; and I would haveSome claim upon thee, if I could,Though but of common neighbourhood.What joy to hear thee, and to see!Thy elder Brother I would be,Thy Father, any thing to thee!
Now thanks to Heaven! that of its graceHath led me to this lonely place.Joy have I had; and going henceI bear away my recompence.
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