Helpstone (excerpt)

Each morning wak'd with hopes before unknown

& eve possesing made each wish their own
The day gone bye left no pursuit undone
Nor one vain wish save that they went too soon
Each sport each pastime ready at their call
As soon as wanted they posses'd em all
These joys all known in happy infancy
& all I ever knew where spent on thee

& who but loves to view where these where past

& who that views but loves em to the last

Feels his heart warm to view his native place

A fondness still those past delights to trace

The vanish'd green to mourn the spot to see

Where flourish'd many a bush & many a tree

Where once the brook (for now the brook is gone)

Oer pebbles dimpling sweet went wimpering on

Oft on whose oaken plank I've wondering stood

(That led a pathway o'er its gentle flood)

To see the beetles their wild mazes run

With getty jackets glittering in the sun

So apt & ready at their reels they seem

So true the dance is figur'd on the stream

Such justness such correctness they impart

They seem as ready as if taught by art

(lines 61 to 84)

 Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820)