A LOVER OF INNOCENT PLEASURES.
[A foreign lady, inviting a late eminent English physician to visit her at her country residence, adds to other inducements, that of his finding a pool close at hand full of frogs,—" god's gift to the physio- logist."]
Wno bath not shared in Cowper's sweet regret, Who, writing to his* gentle cousin, said, " Would you could visit this poor place ere yet Our lilac and laburnum bloom is shed ?"
Who hath not longed to stay the violet, And speed the rose, so that some friend were met By summer's welcome at its loveliest?
But who except a Physiologist
Hath ever dreamt of holding out this bait,
To greet the coming of expected guest ?
" Our house is pleasant, and contiguous, cool, You'll find, dear friend, a shallow, marshy pool,.
Where hundreds of your little favourites wait." England I I joy that she this playful line Who penned elate, no daughter was of thine !
* See Cowper's well-known letter to Lady Hooketh.
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