Evening Pastime

Musing beside the crackling fire at night 
While singing kettle merrily prepares 
Womans solacing beverage I delight 
To read a pleasant volume where the cares 
Of life are sweetened by the muses voice— 
Thompson or Cowper or the Bard that bears 
Lifes humblest name though natures favoured choice 
Her pastoral Bloomfield—& as evening wears 
Weary with reading list the little tales 
Of laughing childern who edge up their chairs 
To tell the past days sport which never fails 
To cheer the spirits—while my fancy shares 
Their artless talk mans sturdy reason fails 
& memorys joy grows young again with theirs

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