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 Strong Sciences in pleaing Order tand,

With Borders of Philoophy on either hand.

Thee well reward the Lab'rers contant Toil,

Are nourih'd by, and yet improve the Soil.

But above all the Wonders of the Spot,

A imple, Men of Learning oft forgot,

In a mall Border very cold and dry,

Here thrives that Tender Trifle, HONESTY;

Neglected Weed! from what trange Climate brought,

How eldom found, indeed, how eldom ought?

How do the eay World appear content

With purious Kinds,

How very often vent

The Fale for True, and give their Sene the lye,

And make their Int'ret pas for Honety?

Another Plant, but ah! how faint it grows?

Not that 'tis hurt by Climate, Frot, and Snows;

But as if Nature uffer'd trong Decay,

It withers every where, and dies away.

FRIENDSHIP!

The nicet Plant that ever grew,

Talk'd of by many, undertood by few.

It's only Help is Honety, and where

That thrives, it gets ome Strength; but's very rare,

By Weeds of Self and Jealouie ore'run,

'Tis choak'd for want of Air, and haded from the Sun.