...wish to be in the right. I am, dear sir, your sinceie friend, . tud ardent admirer, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET AUBURN! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the lab'ring swain' Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering...

...wish to be in the right. I am, dear Sir, your sincere friend, and ardent admirer, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health andplentycheer'd the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting: summer's...

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...one would sometimes wish to be in the right. I am, dear sir, Your sincere friend, and ardent admirer, THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET Auburn! loveliest village...lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, whe11 every sport could please: How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd...

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...glorious voice ; Forever singing, as they shine, " The hand that made us is divine." IV. — Rural Charms. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain ; Where health and plenty cheer'd the lab'ring awain | Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer's lingVing blooms...

...power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 1789. n dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,...diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyra ling'ring blooms delay'd; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport...

...the beautiful description Goldsmith gives of Auburn, which forms an opening to that inimitable poem, the Deserted Village : " Sweet AUBURN ! loveliest...of the plain, " Where health and plenty cheer*d the lab'ring swain, " Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, " And parting summer's ling'ring blooms...

...spring its earliest visit paid [swain, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd: Dear lovely bow'rs of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please How often have 1 loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on...