...feast. And in the following lines, Freneau celebrates nature in one of her smaller manifestations. No roving foot shall crush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear. He does not sound like the kind of fellow whom Jefferson would enlist to spit in the face of the federalists....

...poetic effort. Professor Pattee believes that this poem was written at Charleston, in 1786. We give it in full: Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid...silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied blossoms b'ow, Unseen thy little branches greet ; No roving foot shill ctusb tb.ee here, No busy hand provoke...

...Freneau Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow Unseen thy little branches greet; No roving foot shall crush thee her^. No busy hand provoke a tear. By Nature's self in white arrayed, She bade thee shun the vulgar...

...Untoueh'd thy heney'd blossoms blew, Unseen thy little branehes greet : No roving foot shall erush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear. By Nature's self in white array'd, She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, And planted here the guardian shade, And sent soft waters...