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308 Did the good Father and his second Mate

Redeem at length their plot of smiling fields.

These, at this day, the eldest Son retains:

The younger Offspring, through the busy world,

Have all been scattered wide, by various fates;

But each departed from the native Vale,

In beauty flourishing, and moral worth."

END OF THE SIXTH BOOK.