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home is the resort

Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where,

Supporting and supported, polish'd friends

And dear relations le into bliss

Thomson

On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood,

in the year 1584, the chateau of Monsieur St Aubert From its ere seen the pastoral landscapes of Guienne and Gascony stretching

along the river, gay with luxuriant woods and vine, and plantations of

olives

To the south, the vieas bounded by the majestic Pyrenees,

whose su awful forain, as the partial vapours rolled along, were soe of air, and soloomy pine, that swept doard to their base These

trereen of the pastures

and woods that hung upon their skirts; aes, the eye, after having scaled the cliffs above,

delighted to repose To the north, and to the east, the plains of

Guienne and Languedoc were lost in the mist of distance; on the west,

Gascony was bounded by the waters of Biscay

M St Aubert loved to wander, with his wife and daughter, on the in