Still to the full-grown plant is added care:
Behold where cank'ring rust the stalk invades,
And teasels bristling with their lancet points!
Fails the lost corn-plant; in its place succeeds
Burdock or cockle, thick obtrusive woods;
Where baneful darnels nobler fruits supplant,
And wilding oats o'ertop with heads unbless'd.
Ply then the rake with most unceasing toil;
Affright the birds; the darkling hedges prune
With sharpen'd hook; by vows invoke the show'r; [. . .]