Ten righteous would have saved a city once,
And thou hast many righteous.-Well for thee-
That salt preserves thee; more corrupted else,
And therefore more obnoxious, at this hour,
Than Sodom in her day had power to be,

For whom God heard his Abraham plead in vain.

Book Fourth.
The Winter Ebening.

The Argument.

The post comes in-The newspaper is read-The world contemplated at a distance-Address to Winter-The rural amusements of a winter evening compared with the fashionable ones-Address to Evening-A brown studyFall of snow in the evening-The waggoner-A poor family-piece-The rural thief-Public houses-The multitude of them censured-The farmer's daughter what she was what she is-The simplicity of country manners almost lost-Causes of the change- Desertion of the country by the rich-Neglect of magistrates-The militia principally in fault-The new recruit and his transformation-Reflection on bodies corporate-The love of rural objects natural to all, and never to be totally extinguished.