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 Who, far from civil arts and social fly, And scowl at strangers with suspicious eye.

Here too the lawless vagrant of the main Draws from his plough th' intoxicated swain; Want only claim'd the labour of the day, But vice now steals his nightly rest away.

Where are the swains, who, daily labour done, With rural games play'd down the setting sun; Who struck with matchless force the bounding ball, Or made the pond'rous quoit obliquely fall; While some huge Ajax, terrible and strong, Engag'd some artful stripling of the throng, And foil'd beneath the young Ulysses fell; When peals of praise the merry mischief tell? Where