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NHG-P.768.021
3 Jun 1768:11 (608)
To the Author of the Farmer's Letters,
which were written in Ireland in the Year of the Rebellion,
by Henry Brooke, Esq; 1745.
Oh thou, whose artless freeborn genius charms,
Whose rustick zeal each patriot bosom warms,
Pursue the glorious task, the pleasing toil,
Forsake the fields and till a nobler soil;
Extend the farmer's care to human kind,
Manure the heart, and cultivate the mind;
There plant religions, reason, freedom, truth:
And sow the seeds of virtue in our youth:
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