Happy the Lab'rer is a 3 stanza poem describing a laborer getting ready and going to church on a Sunday. It summarizes that he wears his Sunday best clothes which are modest but clean, puts a cabbage rose in his buttonhole, and attends church where he listens to the sermon though may not fully understand it.
Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend is a poem praising the wit and character of a young woman named Anna. It uses exaggerated similes to describe her vast mind that could encompass landscapes like vast savannahs and groves, and her sharp judgment that could match natural wonders. However, the poem says a new language would need to be created to truly describe
Happy the Lab'rer is a 3 stanza poem describing a laborer getting ready and going to church on a Sunday. It summarizes that he wears his Sunday best clothes which are modest but clean, puts a cabbage rose in his buttonhole, and attends church where he listens to the sermon though may not fully understand it.
Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend is a poem praising the wit and character of a young woman named Anna. It uses exaggerated similes to describe her vast mind that could encompass landscapes like vast savannahs and groves, and her sharp judgment that could match natural wonders. However, the poem says a new language would need to be created to truly describe
Happy the Lab'rer is a 3 stanza poem describing a laborer getting ready and going to church on a Sunday. It summarizes that he wears his Sunday best clothes which are modest but clean, puts a cabbage rose in his buttonhole, and attends church where he listens to the sermon though may not fully understand it.
Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend is a poem praising the wit and character of a young woman named Anna. It uses exaggerated similes to describe her vast mind that could encompass landscapes like vast savannahs and groves, and her sharp judgment that could match natural wonders. However, the poem says a new language would need to be created to truly describe
Happy the Lab'rer is a 3 stanza poem describing a laborer getting ready and going to church on a Sunday. It summarizes that he wears his Sunday best clothes which are modest but clean, puts a cabbage rose in his buttonhole, and attends church where he listens to the sermon though may not fully understand it.
Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend is a poem praising the wit and character of a young woman named Anna. It uses exaggerated similes to describe her vast mind that could encompass landscapes like vast savannahs and groves, and her sharp judgment that could match natural wonders. However, the poem says a new language would need to be created to truly describe
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Happy the Lab'rer
Happy the lab'rer in his Sunday clothes!
In light-drab coat, smart waistcoat, well-darn'd hose, Andhat upon his head, to church he goes; As oft, with conscious pride, he downward throws A glance upon the ample cabbage rose That, stuc in button-hole, regales his nose, He en!ies not the gayest "ondon beau#$ In church he taes his seat among the rows, %ays to the place the re!erence he owes, "ies best the prayers whose meaning least he nows, "ists to the sermon in a softening do&e, And rouses 'oyous at the welcome close$ (ane Austen Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend In measured !erse I'll now rehearse The charms of lo!ely Anna) And, first, her mind is unconfined "ie any !ast sa!annah$ *ntario's lae may fitly spea Her fancy's ample bound) Its circuit may, on strict sur!ey +i!e hundred miles be found$ Her wit descends on foes and friends "ie famed ,iagara's fall; And tra!ellers ga&e in wild ama&e, And listen, one and all$ Her 'udgment sound, thic, blac, profound, "ie transatlantic gro!es, -ispenses aid, and friendly shade To all that in it ro!es$ If thus her mind to be defined America e#hausts, And all that's grand in that great land In similes it costs -- *h how can I her person try To image and portray. How paint the face, the form how trace, In which those !irtues lay. Another world must be unfurled, Another language nown, /re tongue or sound can publish round Her charms of flesh and bone$ (ane Austen