Citation - New York Gazeteer-Albany: 1783.04.07

NYG-A.783.010
7 Apr 1783:41 (1/45)
THE CHOICE.
Might I, like others, make request,
For what I'd chuse, to make me blest,
Few words should speak my whole desire,
And tell now how my thoughts aspire,
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Nor it is musick's soft'ning strains,
To banish care and sooth my pains:
'Tis not neat gardens and alcoves,
Nor cooling rills, nor silent groves,
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'Tis not to spend the grey-ey'd morn,
In sprightly chace with hound and horn.
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