...observed earlier: a sevenstanza encomium to Daniel Boone and the backwoodsmen of Kentucky (VIII.61-67): Motion was in their days, Rest in their slumbers,...their hearts her soil; The lust which stings, the splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil; Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes...

...; Simple they were, not savage, and their rifles, Though very true, were yet not used for trifles. Motion was in their days, rest in their slumbers,...their hearts her soil : The lust which stings, the splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil : Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes,...

...nothing about the infanticide there practised. Byron, keeping closer to the facts of his Kentucky, wrote: Motion was in their days, Rest in their slumbers,...their toil; Nor yet too many nor too few their numbers — The history of the industrial revolution shows the power of machinery to raise the human birth-rate;...