...leave the land. Down where you anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with'every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass...connubial tenderness, are there ; And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou. sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still...

...destruction done ; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave tho land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail,...melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all tho strand. Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there ; And piety...

...driven by such laws to seek shelter in foreign climes — ' ' a melancholy band pass from the shore." " Contented toil and hospitable care. And kind connubial tenderness are there ; And piety with wishes plac'd above, » And steady loyalty and faithful love." The poet's last lines are a prayer : " Teach...

...driven by such laws to seek shelter in foreign dimes — " a melancholy band pass from the shore." " Contented toil and hospitable care. And kind connubial tenderness are there ; And piety with wishes plac'd above, And steady loyalty and faithful love." The poet's last lines are a prayer : " Teach erring...

...as pondering here I ray, RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY I see the rural Virtues leave the land: Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 400 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented...

...destruction done ; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail,...melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand."1 It was characteristic of the author of Animated Nature to stock Georgia with tigers, but...

...historian, again converting loss into gain, as the landscape fills up with the virtues that are leaving it: "Downward they move a melancholy band, / Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand" (lines 401-2). We have yet one more catalogue arraying toil and care, tenderness and piety, loyalty...

...destruction done; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land, Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 400 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand, Contented...

...403-6 of The Deserted Village, a description of those very rural virtues, as the epigraph to his poem: Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial...placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. But Kirby's poem does not use the rural virtues to attract the muse, since they do not yet exist in...

...land: Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 220 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. 2 " 26. artisan. 27. gallows. 28. spinning-wheel. 29. beach or shoreline. And kind connubial tenderness,...