This is the amiable hope of one who lived an entirely amiable life in

"homely towns,

Sweetly environ'd with the daisied downs:"

and who is not the less to be beloved because at times his amiability

prevents him from attacking even our somnolence too fiercely. If the

casual reader but remember Browne as a poet who had the honor to

supply Keats with inspiration,[A] there will always be others, and

enough of them, to prize his ambling Muse for her own qualities.

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