work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 5328,"",Reading and HDIS (Poetry),2003-11-23 00:00:00 UTC,"Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain,
These simple blessings of the lowly train;
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm than all the gloss of art;
Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play,
The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway;
Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind,
Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined
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But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade,
With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed,
In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain,
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain;
And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
(ll. 251-64, pp. 686-7)",2010-06-10,14302,"•The phrase ""vacant mind"" appears earlier in the poem: ""the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind"" (l. 122). Lonsdale glosses vacant here as ""Untroubled by thought, carefree (as in 'vacant hilarity', Vicar of Wakefield"" (p. 681).","""Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, / The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway; / Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, / Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.""",Inhabitants,2010-06-10 18:44:22 UTC,""