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In hopes of a #scholarly #research favor:
Does anyone here have institutional access to the John Johnson Collection (archive of printed ephemera)?
@noorka is trying to find out whether this archive includes #c18th #chapbooks but TTU does not have institutional access. Might someone be willing to take a quick look for us? Thanks so much!

johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/mar

johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.ukInformation Site - the John Johnson Collection

So did its sunshine warm my brow
& sure it gleams as lovely now
Tis full as still the grazing kine
Make but sweet music in their noise
The sweetest flowers it owns are mine
Free gifts & so are all its joys
The trees their friendly arms extend
& bid me welcome to their shade
The old molehills their welcomes lend
As if for rest on purpose made

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While sauntering noiseless oer the leafy ground
The air we breathe seems void of every trace
Of earth & all its trouble & the mind
Yearns for a dwelling in so sweet a place
From troubles noise such stillness seemeth by
Yet still the little path winds on and on
Down hedgerow sides & many a pastoral charm
We soon forget the charm of poesy gone
In the still woodland with its silent balm

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How delightfuly pleasant when the cool chilling air
By september is thrown oer the globe
When each morning both hedges and bushes do wear
Instead of their green—a grey robe.
To see the sun rise thro the skirts of the wood
In his mantle so lovley and red
It cheers up my spirits and does me much good
As thro the cold stubbles I tred

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While glides the stream a silver streak between
As glides the shaded clouds along the sky
Brightning & deep'ning loosing as they're seen
In light & shade—so when old willows lean 
Thus their broad shadow—runs the river bye 
With tree & bush repleat a wilderd scene 
& mossd & Ivyd sparkling on my eye— 
O thus wild musing am I doubly blest 
My woes unheeding—& my heart at rest

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