VI

You can’t match the colour o’ these heath mounds,

Nor better that peat-fire’s agreeable smell.

I’m clothed-like with natural sights and sounds;

To myself I’m in tune: I hope you’re as well.

You jolly old cot! though you don’t own coal:

It’s a generous pot that’s boiled with peat.

Let the Lord Mayor o’ London roast oxen whole:

His smoke, at least, don’t smell so sweet.

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