To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair

           ;    1Let me thy Properties explain,

           ;    2A rotten Cabin, dropping Rain;

           ;    3Chimnies with Scorn rejecting Smoak;

           ;    4Stools, Tables, Chairs, and Bed- steds broke:

           ;    5Here Elements have lost their Vses,

           ;    6Air ripens not, nor Earth produces:

           ;    7In vain we make poor Sheelah toil,

           ;    8Fire will not roast, nor Water boil.

           ;    9Thro' all the Vallies, Hills, and Plains,

           ;  10The Goddess Want in Triumph reigns;

           ;  11And her chief Officers of State,

           ;  12Sloth, Dirt, and Theft around her wait.