text:  Their little sports the growth of their young perceptions and the freshness of their ideas renewed to us both all the delights of society without their exhaustion; and when after returning from a day spent in the noise and bustle of London I reached my rustic gate heard the cheerful voices of the little population which rushed down the flowery avenue to cling upon my neck; and stood at the door of my cottage with my arm round the waist of my beautiful and fond wife breathing the evening fragrance of a thousand blooms and enjoying the cool air and the purple glories of the sky--I often wondered why men should seek for happiness in any other scene; and felt gratitude not the less sincere for its being calm and solemn to the Giver of a lot so nearly approaching to human fulness of joy