The lord of day retired, when every bird,
The plumy traveller of unbounded space,
Claim’d the short hour of rest,could Labour’s
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Shake from their freckled brows the evening dew,
And homeward, blithesomely, return to quaff
The honey’d cup of joy? Could they suspire
Health’s breezy hour; on their own cultured plains
Reap the full harvest, pen their fleecy store ;