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Oh, Sweet Content!

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Oh, sweet content, that turns the labourer's sweat      To tears of joy, and shines the roughest face;     How often have I sought you high and low,      And found you still in some lone quiet place;     Here, in my room, when full of happy dreams,      With no life heard beyond that merry sound     Of moths that on my lighted ceiling kiss      Their shadows as they dance and dance around;     Or in a garden, on a summer's night,      When I have seen the dark and solemn air     Blink with the blind bats' wings, and heaven's bright face      Twitch with the stars that shine in thousands there.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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