To the Author of the Farmer's Letters, which were written in IRELAND in the Year of the Rebellion, by HENRY BROOKE, Esq; 1745.

To the Author of the Farmer's Letters, which were written in IRELAND in the Year of the Rebellion, by HENRY BROOKE, Esq; 1745.

By the Same.

OH thou, whose artless, free-born genius charms, Whose rustick zeal each patriot bosom warms; Pursue the glorious task, the pleasing toil, Forsake the fields and till a nobler soil; Extend the Farmer's care to human kind, Manure the heart, and cultivate the mind; There plant religion, reason, freedom, truth, And sow the seeds of virtue in our youth: Let no rank weeds corrupt, or brambles choak, And shake the vermin from the British oak; From northern blasts protect the vernal bloom, And guard our pastures from the wolves of Rome. In Britain's liberty ingraft thy name, And reap the harvest of immortal fame!