Mary Wortley Montagu (Мэри Уортли Монтегю)

Written at Lovere, October, 1736

If age and sickness, poverty and pain,
Should each assault me with alternate plagues,
I know mankind is destin'd to complain,
And I submit to torment and fatigues.
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs,
With patience suffers unexpected rain;
He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares,
And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain.
But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme,
If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

1. Impromptu, to a Young Lady Singing
2. Irregular Verses to Truth
3. Answered, for Lord William Hamilton
4. Epistle to Lord Hervey on the King's Birthday from the Country
5. The Bride in the Country

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