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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: The Deserted Village - -Author: Oliver Goldsmith - -Illustrator: The Etching Club - -Release Date: November 19, 2015 [EBook #50500] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DESERTED VILLAGE *** - - - - -Produced by David Widger from page images generously -provided by Google Books - - - - - - -</pre> - - <div style="height: 8em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> - </div> - <h1> - THE DESERTED VILLAGE - </h1> - <h2> - By Oliver Goldsmith - </h2> - <h3> - Illustrated by the Etching Club - </h3> - <h4> - New York: D. Appleton And Co. Broadway - </h4> - <h5> - MDCCCLVII - </h5> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0001" id="linkimage-0001"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0002.jpg" alt="0002 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0002.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0002" id="linkimage-0002"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0008.jpg" alt="0008 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0008.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - The Illustrations in this Volume are copied, with permission, from a - series of Etchings published some years since by the "Etching Club." Only - a few impressions of that work were printed, the copper-plates were - destroyed, and the book, except in a very expensive form, has long been - unattainable. Great care has been taken to render the present Wood-blocks - as like the original Etchings as the different methods of engraving will - allow. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /> - </p> - <hr /> - <p> - <br /><br /> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> THE DESERTED VILLAGE </a> - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /> - </p> - <hr /> - <p> - <br /><br /> - </p> - <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> - </div> - <h2> - ILLUSTRATIONS - </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> - - Page - - Sweet Auburn! loveliest milage of the plain...T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink007">...007</a> - - The never-failing brook, the busy mill........T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink008">...008</a> - - The hawthorn bush, with seals in shade........C. W. Cope, R.A...<a - href="#linklink009">...009</a> - - The matron's glance that would reprove........H. J. Townsend....<a - href="#linklink010">...010</a> - - The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest...F. Tayler.........<a - href="#linklink012">...012</a> - - These, far departing, seek a kinder shore.....C. Stonhouse......<a - href="#linklink014">...014</a> - - Amidst the swains show my book-learn'd skill..J. C. Horsley.....<a - href="#linklink015">...015</a> - - And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue..F. Tayler.........<a - href="#linklink016">...016</a> - - To spurn imploring famine from the gale.......C. W. Cope, R.A...<a - href="#linklink017">...017</a> - - While resignation gently slopes the way.......T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink018">...018</a> - - The playful children let loose from school....T. Webster, R.A...<a - href="#linklink019">...019</a> - - All but yon widow'd solitary thing............F. Tayler.........<a - href="#linklink020">...020</a> - - The village preacher's modest mansion rose....T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink021">...021</a> - - He chid their wanderings; relieved pain.......C. W. Cope, R.A...<a - href="#linklink022">...022</a> - - Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd fields won..C. W. Cope, R.A...<a - href="#linklink023">...023</a> - - Beside the bed where parting life was laid....R. Redgrave, R.A..<a - href="#linklink025">...025</a> - - And pluck'd his gown, share the man's smile...J. C. Horsley.....<a - href="#linklink026">...026</a> - - The village master taught his little school...T. Webster, R.A...<a - href="#linklink027">...027</a> - - Full well they laugh'd with glee..............T. Webster, R.A...<a - href="#linklink028">...028</a> - - Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd...T. Webster, R.A...<a - href="#linklink028">...028</a> - - In arguing too the parson own'd his skill.....C. W. Cope, R.A...<a - href="#linklink029">...029</a> - - Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head high...T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink030">...030</a> - - Where village statesmen with looks profound...F. Tayler.........<a - href="#linklink031">...031</a> - - But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade....J. C. Horsley.....<a - href="#linklink033">...033</a> - - Proud swells the tide with loads of ore.......T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink034">...034</a> - - If to some common's fenceless limit stray'd...C. Stonhouse......<a - href="#linklink036">...036</a> - - Where the poor houseless female lies..........J. C. Horsley.....<a - href="#linklink037">...037</a> - - She left her wheel and robes of brown.........J. C. Horsley.....<a - href="#linklink038">...038</a> - - The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake....T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink040">...040</a> - - The cooling brookt the grassy-vested green....T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink041">...041</a> - - The good old sire the first prepared to go....C. W. Cope, R.A...<a - href="#linklink042">...042</a> - - Whilst her husband strove to lend relief......R. Redgrave, R.A..<a - href="#linklink043">...043</a> - - Down where yon vessel spreads the sail........T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink044">...044</a> - - Or winter wraps the polar world in snow.......T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink045">...045</a> - - As rocks resist the billows aNd the sky.......T. Creswick, R.A..<a - href="#linklink046">...046</a> - -</pre> - <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> - </div> - <p> - Drawn on wood, from the original Etchings, by E. K. Johnson, and engraved - by Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper. - </p> - <p> - <br /> <br /> - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">007</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink007" id="link007"></a> <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0003" - id="linkimage-0003"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0016.jpg" alt="0016 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0016.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - <br /><br /> - </p> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> - </p> - <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> - </div> - <h2> - THE DESERTED VILLAGE - </h2> - <p> - Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, - </p> - <p> - Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain, - </p> - <p> - Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, - </p> - <p> - And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">008</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink008" id="link008"></a> <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0004" - id="linkimage-0004"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0017.jpg" alt="0017 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0017.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, - </p> - <p> - Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, - </p> - <p> - How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, - </p> - <p> - Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! - </p> - <p> - How often have I paused on every charm, - </p> - <p> - The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">009</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink009" id="link009"></a> <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0005" - id="linkimage-0005"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0020.jpg" alt="0020 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0020.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - The never-failing brook, the busy mill, - </p> - <p> - The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, - </p> - <p> - The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, - </p> - <p> - For talking age and whispering lovers made! - </p> - <p> - How often have I blest the coming day, - </p> - <p> - When toil remitting lent its turn to play, - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">010</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink010" id="link010"></a> - </p> - <p> - And all the village train, from labour free, - </p> - <p> - Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree; - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0006" id="linkimage-0006"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0021.jpg" alt="0021 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0021.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - While many a pastime circled in the shade, - </p> - <p> - The young contending as the old survey'd; - </p> - <p> - And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, - </p> - <p> - And sleights of art and feats of strength went round; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">011</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink011" id="link011"></a> - </p> - <p> - And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, - </p> - <p> - Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired: - </p> - <p> - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, - </p> - <p> - By holding out to tire each other down; - </p> - <p> - The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, - </p> - <p> - While secret laughter titter'd round the place; - </p> - <p> - The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, - </p> - <p> - The matron's glance that would those looks reprove; - </p> - <p> - These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, - </p> - <p> - With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; - </p> - <p> - These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, - </p> - <p> - These were thy charms—but all these charms are fled. - </p> - <p> - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn! - </p> - <p> - Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; - </p> - <p> - Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, - </p> - <p> - And desolation saddens all thy green: - </p> - <p> - One only master grasps the whole domain, - </p> - <p> - And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: - </p> - <p> - No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, - </p> - <p> - But choked with sedges works its weedy way; - </p> - <p> - Along thy glades a solitary guest, - </p> - <p> - The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">012</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink012" id="link012"></a> - </p> - <p> - Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, - </p> - <p> - And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0007" id="linkimage-0007"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0025.jpg" alt="0025 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0025.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, - </p> - <p> - And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; - </p> - <p> - And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, - </p> - <p> - Far, far away thy children leave the land. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">013</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink013" id="link013"></a> - </p> - <p> - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - </p> - <p> - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: - </p> - <p> - Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; - </p> - <p> - A breath can make them, as a breath has made: - </p> - <p> - But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, - </p> - <p> - When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. - </p> - <p> - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, - </p> - <p> - When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; - </p> - <p> - For him light labour spread her wholesome store, - </p> - <p> - Just gave what life required, but gave no more: - </p> - <p> - His best companions, innocence and health; - </p> - <p> - And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. - </p> - <p> - But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train - </p> - <p> - Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; - </p> - <p> - Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, - </p> - <p> - Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose; - </p> - <p> - And every want to luxury allied, - </p> - <p> - And every pang that folly pays to pride. - </p> - <p> - Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, - </p> - <p> - Those calm desires that ask'd but little room, - </p> - <p> - Those healthful sports that graced the peaceful scene, - </p> - <p> - Lived in each look, and brighten'd all the green; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">014</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink014" id="link014"></a> - </p> - <p> - These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, - </p> - <p> - And rural mirth and manners are no more. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0008" id="linkimage-0008"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0027.jpg" alt="0027 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0027.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Sweet Auburn! parent of the blissful hour, - </p> - <p> - Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. - </p> - <p> - Here, as I take my solitary rounds - </p> - <p> - Amidst thy tangling walks and ruin'd grounds, - </p> - <p> - And, many a year elapsed, return to view - </p> - <p> - Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, - </p> - <p> - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, - </p> - <p> - Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">015</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink015" id="link015"></a> - </p> - <p> - In all my wanderings round this world of care, - </p> - <p> - In all my griefs—and God has given my share— - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0009" id="linkimage-0009"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0030.jpg" alt="0030 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0030.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - To husband out life's taper at the close, - </p> - <p> - And keep the flame from wasting by repose: - </p> - <p> - I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to - lay me down; - </p> - <p> - I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, - </p> - <p> - Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">016</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink016" id="link016"></a> - </p> - <p> - Around my fire an evening group to draw, - </p> - <p> - And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; - </p> - <p> - And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, - </p> - <p> - Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0010" id="linkimage-0010"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0031.jpg" alt="0031 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0031.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - I still had hopes, my long vexations past, - </p> - <p> - Here to return—and die at home at last. - </p> - <p> - O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, - </p> - <p> - Retreats from care, that never must be mine: - </p> - <p> - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, - </p> - <p> - A youth of labour with an age of ease; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">017</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink017" id="link017"></a> - </p> - <p> - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, - </p> - <p> - And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! - </p> - <p> - For him no wretches, born to work and weep, - </p> - <p> - Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0011" id="linkimage-0011"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0034.jpg" alt="0034 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0034.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - No surly porter stands, in guilty state, - </p> - <p> - To spurn imploring famine from the gate— - </p> - <p> - But on he moves to meet his latter end, - </p> - <p> - Angels around befriending virtue's friend; - </p> - <p> - Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, - </p> - <p> - While resignation gently slopes the way; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">018</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink018" id="link018"></a> - </p> - <p> - And, all his prospects brightening to the last, - </p> - <p> - His heaven commences ere the world be past. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0012" id="linkimage-0012"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0035.jpg" alt="0035 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0035.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, - </p> - <p> - Up yonder hill the village murmur rose: - </p> - <p> - There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, - </p> - <p> - The mingling notes came soften'd from below; - </p> - <p> - The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, - </p> - <p> - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; - </p> - <p> - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, - </p> - <p> - The playful children just let loose from school; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">019</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink019" id="link019"></a> - </p> - <p> - The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, - </p> - <p> - And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0013" id="linkimage-0013"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0038.jpg" alt="0038 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0038.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, - </p> - <p> - And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. - </p> - <p> - But now the sounds of population fail: - </p> - <p> - No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, - </p> - <p> - No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, - </p> - <p> - But all the bloomy flush of life is fled; - </p> - <p> - All but yon widow'd solitary thing, - </p> - <p> - That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">020</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink020" id="link020"></a> - </p> - <p> - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, - </p> - <p> - To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0014" id="linkimage-0014"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0039.jpg" alt="0039 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0039.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, - </p> - <p> - To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn; - </p> - <p> - She only left of all the harmless train, - </p> - <p> - The sad historian of the pensive plain. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">021</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink021" id="link021"></a> - </p> - <p> - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, - </p> - <p> - And still where many a garden flower grows wild, - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0015" id="linkimage-0015"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0042.jpg" alt="0042 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0042.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, - </p> - <p> - The village preacher's modest mansion rose. - </p> - <p> - A man he was to all the country dear, - </p> - <p> - And passing rich with forty pounds a year; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">022</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink022" id="link022"></a> - </p> - <p> - Remote from towns he ran his godly race, - </p> - <p> - Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0016" id="linkimage-0016"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0043.jpg" alt="0043 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0043.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, - </p> - <p> - By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; - </p> - <p> - Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, - </p> - <p> - More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">023</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink023" id="link023"></a> - </p> - <p> - His house was known to all the vagrant train; - </p> - <p> - He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain: - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0017" id="linkimage-0017"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0046.jpg" alt="0046 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0046.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - The long remember'd beggar was his guest, - </p> - <p> - Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; - </p> - <p> - The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, - </p> - <p> - Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">024</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink024" id="link024"></a> - </p> - <p> - The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, - </p> - <p> - Sate by his fire, and talk'd the night away; - </p> - <p> - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, - </p> - <p> - Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. - </p> - <p> - Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, - </p> - <p> - And quite forgot their vices in their woe; - </p> - <p> - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, - </p> - <p> - His pity gave ere charity began. - </p> - <p> - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, - </p> - <p> - And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; - </p> - <p> - But in his duty prompt, at every call, - </p> - <p> - He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all: - </p> - <p> - And, as a bird each fond endearment tries - </p> - <p> - To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, - </p> - <p> - He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, - </p> - <p> - Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. - </p> - <p> - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, - </p> - <p> - And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, - </p> - <p> - The reverend champion stood. At his control, - </p> - <p> - Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">025</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink025" id="link025"></a> - </p> - <p> - Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, - </p> - <p> - And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0018" id="linkimage-0018"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0050.jpg" alt="0050 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0050.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, - </p> - <p> - His looks adorn'd the venerable place; - </p> - <p> - Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, - </p> - <p> - And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. - </p> - <p> - The service past, around the pious man, - </p> - <p> - With ready zeal each honest rustic ran: - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">026</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink026" id="link026"></a> - </p> - <p> - E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, - </p> - <p> - And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0019" id="linkimage-0019"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0051.jpg" alt="0051 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0051.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, - </p> - <p> - Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distress'd - </p> - <p> - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, - </p> - <p> - But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. - </p> - <p> - As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, - </p> - <p> - Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">027</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink027" id="link027"></a> - </p> - <p> - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, - </p> - <p> - Eternal sunshine settles on its head. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0020" id="linkimage-0020"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0054.jpg" alt="0054 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0054.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way - </p> - <p> - With blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay, - </p> - <p> - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, - </p> - <p> - The village master taught his little school: - </p> - <p> - A man severe he was, and stern to view; - </p> - <p> - I knew him well, and every truant knew: - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0021" id="linkimage-0021"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0055.jpg" alt="0055 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0055.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many - a joke had he; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">028</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink028" id="link028"></a> - </p> - <p> - Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace - </p> - <p> - The day's disasters in his morning face: - </p> - <p> - Full well the busy whisper, circling round, - </p> - <p> - Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">029</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink029" id="link029"></a> - </p> - <p> - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, - </p> - <p> - The love he bore to learning was in fault: - </p> - <p> - The village all declared how much he knew; - </p> - <p> - 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too: - </p> - <p> - Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, - </p> - <p> - And e'en the story ran that he could gauge: - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0022" id="linkimage-0022"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0058.jpg" alt="0058 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0058.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - In arguing too the parson own'd his skill, - </p> - <p> - For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">030</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink030" id="link030"></a> - </p> - <p> - While words of learned length, and thundering sound, - </p> - <p> - Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; - </p> - <p> - And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew - </p> - <p> - That one small head could carry all he knew. - </p> - <p> - But past is all his fame: the very spot, - </p> - <p> - Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0023" id="linkimage-0023"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0059.jpg" alt="0059 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0059.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, - </p> - <p> - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, - </p> - <p> - Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, - </p> - <p> - Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">031</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink031" id="link031"></a> - </p> - <p> - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, - </p> - <p> - And news much older than their ale went round. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0024" id="linkimage-0024"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0062.jpg" alt="0062 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0062.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Imagination fondly stoops to trace - </p> - <p> - The parlour splendours of that festive place; - </p> - <p> - The white-wash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, - </p> - <p> - The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">032</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink032" id="link032"></a> - </p> - <p> - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, - </p> - <p> - A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; - </p> - <p> - The pictures placed for ornament and use, - </p> - <p> - The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose - </p> - <p> - The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, - </p> - <p> - With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay - </p> - <p> - While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, - </p> - <p> - Ranged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. - </p> - <p> - Vain, transitory splendours! could not all - </p> - <p> - Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall I - </p> - <p> - Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart - </p> - <p> - An hour's importance to the poor man's heart: - </p> - <p> - Thither no more the peasant shall repair - </p> - <p> - To sweet oblivion of his daily care: - </p> - <p> - No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, - </p> - <p> - No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; - </p> - <p> - No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, - </p> - <p> - Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear; - </p> - <p> - The host himself no longer shall be found - </p> - <p> - Careful to see the mantling bliss go round; - </p> - <p> - Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, - </p> - <p> - Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">033</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink033" id="link033"></a> - </p> - <p> - Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, - </p> - <p> - These simple blessings of the lowly train: - </p> - <p> - To me more dear, congenial to my heart, - </p> - <p> - One native charm, than all the gloss of art; - </p> - <p> - Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, - </p> - <p> - The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; - </p> - <p> - Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, - </p> - <p> - Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0025" id="linkimage-0025"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0066.jpg" alt="0066 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0066.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, - </p> - <p> - With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, - </p> - <p> - In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, - </p> - <p> - The toilsome pleasure sickens into pain; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">034</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink034" id="link034"></a> - </p> - <p> - And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, - </p> - <p> - The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy? - </p> - <p> - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey - </p> - <p> - The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, - </p> - <p> - 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand - </p> - <p> - Between a splendid and a happy land. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0026" id="linkimage-0026"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0067.jpg" alt="0067 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0067.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, - </p> - <p> - And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; - </p> - <p> - Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, - </p> - <p> - And rich men flock from all the world around. - </p> - <p> - Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name - </p> - <p> - That leaves our useful product still the same. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">035</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink035" id="link035"></a> - </p> - <p> - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride - </p> - <p> - Takes up a space that many poor supplied; - </p> - <p> - Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, - </p> - <p> - Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; - </p> - <p> - The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth - </p> - <p> - Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; - </p> - <p> - His seat, where solitary sports are seen, - </p> - <p> - Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; - </p> - <p> - Around the world each needful product flies, - </p> - <p> - For all the luxuries the world supplies: - </p> - <p> - While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, - </p> - <p> - In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. - </p> - <p> - As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, - </p> - <p> - Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, - </p> - <p> - Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, - </p> - <p> - Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; - </p> - <p> - But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, - </p> - <p> - When time advances, and when lovers fail, - </p> - <p> - She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, - </p> - <p> - In all the glaring impotence of dress; - </p> - <p> - Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, - </p> - <p> - In nature's simplest charms at first array'd; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">036</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink036" id="link036"></a> - </p> - <p> - But verging to decline, its splendours rise, - </p> - <p> - Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; - </p> - <p> - While, scourged by famine, from the smiling land - </p> - <p> - The mournful peasant leads his humble band; - </p> - <p> - And while he sinks, without one arm to save, - </p> - <p> - The country blooms—a garden and a grave! - </p> - <p> - Where then, ah! where shall poverty reside, - </p> - <p> - To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0027" id="linkimage-0027"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0071.jpg" alt="0071 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0071.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, - </p> - <p> - He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, - </p> - <p> - Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, - </p> - <p> - And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">037</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink037" id="link037"></a> - </p> - <p> - If to the city sped—What waits him there? - </p> - <p> - To see profusion, that he must not share; - </p> - <p> - To see ten thousand baneful arts combined - </p> - <p> - To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; - </p> - <p> - To see each joy the sons of pleasure know, - </p> - <p> - Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0028" id="linkimage-0028"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0074.jpg" alt="0074 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0074.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Here, while the courtier glitters in brocade, - </p> - <p> - There the pale artist plies the sickly trade; - </p> - <p> - Here, while the proud their long-drawn pomp display, - </p> - <p> - There the black gibbet glooms beside the way; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">038</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink038" id="link038"></a> - </p> - <p> - The dome where pleasure holds her midnight reign, - </p> - <p> - Here, richly deck'd, admits the gorgeous train; - </p> - <p> - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, - </p> - <p> - The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. - </p> - <p> - Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy! - </p> - <p> - Sure these denote one universal joy! - </p> - <p> - Are these thy serious thoughts? Ah, turn thine eyes - </p> - <p> - Where the poor houseless shivering female lies: - </p> - <p> - She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, - </p> - <p> - Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0029" id="linkimage-0029"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0075.jpg" alt="0075 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0075.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, - </p> - <p> - Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">039</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink039" id="link039"></a> - </p> - <p> - Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, - </p> - <p> - Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, - </p> - <p> - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, - </p> - <p> - With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour - </p> - <p> - When idly first, ambitious of the town, - </p> - <p> - She left her wheel and robes of country brown. - </p> - <p> - Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest train, - </p> - <p> - Do thy fair tribes participate her pain? - </p> - <p> - E'en now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led, - </p> - <p> - At proud men's doors they ask a little bread! - </p> - <p> - Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene, - </p> - <p> - Where half the convex world intrudes between, - </p> - <p> - Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, - </p> - <p> - Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe. - </p> - <p> - Far different there from all that charm'd before, - </p> - <p> - The various terrors of that horrid shore; - </p> - <p> - Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, - </p> - <p> - And fiercely shed intolerable day; - </p> - <p> - Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, - </p> - <p> - But silent-bats in drowsy clusters cling; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">040</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink040" id="link040"></a> - </p> - <p> - Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, - </p> - <p> - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; - </p> - <p> - Where at each step the stranger fears to wake - </p> - <p> - The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0030" id="linkimage-0030"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0079.jpg" alt="0079 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0079.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, - </p> - <p> - And savage men more murderous still than they; - </p> - <p> - While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, - </p> - <p> - Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. - </p> - <p> - Far different these from every former scene, - </p> - <p> - The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">041</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink041" id="link041"></a> - </p> - <p> - The breezy covert of the warbling grove, - </p> - <p> - That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0031" id="linkimage-0031"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0082.jpg" alt="0082 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0082.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Good Heaven! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day, - </p> - <p> - That call'd them from their native walks away! - </p> - <p> - When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, - </p> - <p> - Hung round the bowers, and fondly look'd their last, - </p> - <p> - And took a long farewell, and wish'd in vain - </p> - <p> - For seats like these beyond the western main; - </p> - <p> - And shuddering still to face the distant deep, - </p> - <p> - Return'd and wept, and still return'd to weep. - </p> - <p> - The good old sire the first prepared to go - </p> - <p> - To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">042</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink042" id="link042"></a> - </p> - <p> - But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, - </p> - <p> - He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave. - </p> - <p> - His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, - </p> - <p> - The fond companion of his helpless years, - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0032" id="linkimage-0032"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0083.jpg" alt="0083 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0083.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, - </p> - <p> - And left a lover's for her father's arms. - </p> - <p> - With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes, - </p> - <p> - And bless'd the cot where every pleasure rose; - </p> - <p> - And kiss'd her thoughtless babes with many a tear, - </p> - <p> - And clasp'd them close, in sorrow doubly dear; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">043</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink043" id="link043"></a> - </p> - <p> - Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief, - </p> - <p> - In all the silent manliness of grief. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0033" id="linkimage-0033"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0086.jpg" alt="0086 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0086.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, - </p> - <p> - How ill exchanged are things like these for thee! - </p> - <p> - How do thy potions, with insidious joy, - </p> - <p> - Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! - </p> - <p> - Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, - </p> - <p> - Boast of a florid vigour not their own: - </p> - <p> - At every draught more large and large they grow, - </p> - <p> - A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe; - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">044</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink044" id="link044"></a> - </p> - <p> - Till, sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, - </p> - <p> - Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. - </p> - <p> - E'en now the devastation is begun, - </p> - <p> - And half the business of destruction done; - </p> - <p> - E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, - </p> - <p> - I see the rural virtues leave the land. - </p> - <p> - Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, - </p> - <p> - That idly waiting flaps with every gale; - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0034" id="linkimage-0034"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0087.jpg" alt="0087 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0087.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Downward they move, a melancholy band, - </p> - <p> - Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. - </p> - <p> - Contented toil, and hospitable care, - </p> - <p> - And kind connubial tenderness, are there; - </p> - <p> - And piety, with wishes placed above, - </p> - <p> - And steady loyalty, and faithful love. - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">045</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink045" id="link045"></a> - </p> - <p> - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, - </p> - <p> - Still first to fly where sensual joys invade, - </p> - <p> - Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, - </p> - <p> - To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; - </p> - <p> - Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, - </p> - <p> - My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; - </p> - <p> - Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, - </p> - <p> - That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0035" id="linkimage-0035"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0090.jpg" alt="0090 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0090.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <p> - Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, - </p> - <p> - Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well! - </p> - <p> - Farewell! and oh! where'er thy voice be tried, - </p> - <p> - On Torno's cliffs, or Pambamarca's side, - </p> - <p> - Whether where equinoctial fervors glow, - </p> - <p> - Or winter wraps the polar world in snow, - </p> - <h3> - <span class="pagenum">046</span><br /><br /> - </h3> - <hr /> - <p> - <a name="linklink046" id="link046"></a> - </p> - <p> - Still let thy voice, prevailing over time, - </p> - <p> - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime. - </p> - <p> - Aid slighted Truth with thy persuasive strain: - </p> - <p> - Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; - </p> - <p> - Teach him, that states of native strength possest, - </p> - <p> - Though very poor, may still be very blest; - </p> - <p> - That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, - </p> - <p> - As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; - </p> - <p> - While self-dependent power can time defy, - </p> - <p> - As rocks resist the billows and the sky. - </p> - <p> - <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0036" id="linkimage-0036"> </a> - </p> - <div class="fig" style="width:80%;"> - <img src="images/0091.jpg" alt="0091 " width="100%" /><br /> - </div> - <h5> - <a href="images/0091.jpg"><img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> - </h5> - <div style="height: 6em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> - </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DESERTED VILLAGE *** - -***** This file should be named 50500-h.htm or 50500-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/5/0/50500/ - -Produced by David Widger from page images generously -provided by Google Books - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: The Deserted Village - -Author: Oliver Goldsmith - -Illustrator: The Etching Club - -Release Date: November 19, 2015 [EBook #50500] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DESERTED VILLAGE *** - - - - -Produced by David Widger from page images generously -provided by Google Books - - - - - - - - - -THE DESERTED VILLAGE - -By Oliver Goldsmith - -Illustrated by the Etching Club - -New York: D. Appleton And Co. Broadway - -MDCCCLVII - - -[Illustration: 0001] - - -[Illustration: 0008] - - -The Illustrations in this Volume are copied, with permission, -from a series of Etchings published some years since by the -"Etching Club." Only a few impressions of that work were -printed, the copper-plates were destroyed, and the book, except -in a very expensive form, has long been unattainable. Great -care has been taken to render the present Wood-blocks as like -the original Etchings as the different methods of engraving will -allow. - - - - -ILLUSTRATIONS - - Page - - Sweet Auburn! loveliest milage of the plain...T. Creswick, R.A....007 - - The never-failing brook, the busy mill........T. Creswick, R.A....008 - - The hawthorn bush, with seals in shade........C. W. Cope, R.A.....009 - - The matron's glance that would reprove........H. J. Townsend......010 - - The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest...F. Tayler...........012 - - These, far departing, seek a kinder shore.....C. Stonhouse........014 - - Amidst the swains show my book-learn'd skill..J. C. Horsley.......015 - - And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue..F. Tayler...........016 - - To spurn imploring famine from the gale.......C. W. Cope, R.A.....017 - - While resignation gently slopes the way.......T. Creswick, R.A....018 - - The playful children let loose from school....T. Webster, R.A.....019 - - All but yon widow'd solitary thing............F. Tayler...........020 - - The village preacher's modest mansion rose....T. Creswick, R.A....021 - - He chid their wanderings; relieved pain.......C. W. Cope, R.A.....022 - - Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd fields won..C. W. Cope, R.A.....023 - - Beside the bed where parting life was laid....R. Redgrave, R.A....025 - - And pluck'd his gown, share the man's smile...J. C. Horsley.......026 - - The village master taught his little school...T. Webster, R.A.....027 - - Full well they laugh'd with glee..............T. Webster, R.A.....028 - - Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd...T. Webster, R.A.....028 - - In arguing too the parson own'd his skill.....C. W. Cope, R.A.....029 - - Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head high...T. Creswick, R.A....030 - - Where village statesmen with looks profound...F. Tayler...........031 - - But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade....J. C. Horsley.......033 - - Proud swells the tide with loads of ore.......T. Creswick, R.A....034 - - If to some common's fenceless limit stray'd...C. Stonhouse........036 - - Where the poor houseless female lies..........J. C. Horsley.......037 - - She left her wheel and robes of brown.........J. C. Horsley.......038 - - The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake....T. Creswick, R.A....040 - - The cooling brookt the grassy-vested green....T. Creswick, R.A....041 - - The good old sire the first prepared to go....C. W. Cope, R.A.....042 - - Whilst her husband strove to lend relief......R. Redgrave, R.A....043 - - Down where yon vessel spreads the sail........T. Creswick, R.A....044 - - Or winter wraps the polar world in snow.......T. Creswick, R.A....045 - - As rocks resist the billows aNd the sky.......T. Creswick, R.A....046 - - - -Drawn on wood, from the original Etchings, by E. K. Johnson, and -engraved by Horace Harral, Thomas Bolton, and James Cooper. - - -{007} - - -[Illustration: 0016] - - - - -THE DESERTED VILLAGE - - -Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, - -Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain, - -Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, - -And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd. - -{008} - - -[Illustration: 0017] - - -Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, - -Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, - -How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, - -Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! - -How often have I paused on every charm, - -The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, - -{009} - - -[Illustration: 0020] - - -The never-failing brook, the busy mill, - -The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, - -The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, - -For talking age and whispering lovers made! - -How often have I blest the coming day, - -When toil remitting lent its turn to play, - -{010} - -And all the village train, from labour free, - -Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree; - - -[Illustration: 0021] - - -While many a pastime circled in the shade, - -The young contending as the old survey'd; - -And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, - -And sleights of art and feats of strength went round; - -{011} - -And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, - -Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired: - -The dancing pair that simply sought renown, - -By holding out to tire each other down; - -The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, - -While secret laughter titter'd round the place; - -The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, - -The matron's glance that would those looks reprove; - -These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, - -With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; - -These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, - -These were thy charms--but all these charms are fled. - -Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn! - -Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; - -Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, - -And desolation saddens all thy green: - -One only master grasps the whole domain, - -And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: - -No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, - -But choked with sedges works its weedy way; - -Along thy glades a solitary guest, - -The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; - -{012} - -Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, - -And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. - - -[Illustration: 0025] - - -Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, - -And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; - -And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, - -Far, far away thy children leave the land. - -{013} - -Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - -Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: - -Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; - -A breath can make them, as a breath has made: - -But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, - -When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. - -A time there was, ere England's griefs began, - -When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; - -For him light labour spread her wholesome store, - -Just gave what life required, but gave no more: - -His best companions, innocence and health; - -And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. - -But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train - -Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; - -Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, - -Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose; - -And every want to luxury allied, - -And every pang that folly pays to pride. - -Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, - -Those calm desires that ask'd but little room, - -Those healthful sports that graced the peaceful scene, - -Lived in each look, and brighten'd all the green; - -{014} - -These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, - -And rural mirth and manners are no more. - - -[Illustration: 0027] - - -Sweet Auburn! parent of the blissful hour, - -Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. - -Here, as I take my solitary rounds - -Amidst thy tangling walks and ruin'd grounds, - -And, many a year elapsed, return to view - -Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, - -Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, - -Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. - -{015} - -In all my wanderings round this world of care, - -In all my griefs--and God has given my share-- - - -[Illustration: 0030] - - -To husband out life's taper at the close, - -And keep the flame from wasting by repose: - -I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, -Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; - -I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, - -Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, - -{016} - -Around my fire an evening group to draw, - -And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; - -And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, - -Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, - - -[Illustration: 0031] - - -I still had hopes, my long vexations past, - -Here to return--and die at home at last. - -O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, - -Retreats from care, that never must be mine: - -How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, - -A youth of labour with an age of ease; - -{017} - -Who quits a world where strong temptations try, - -And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! - -For him no wretches, born to work and weep, - -Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; - - -[Illustration: 0034] - - -No surly porter stands, in guilty state, - -To spurn imploring famine from the gate-- - -But on he moves to meet his latter end, - -Angels around befriending virtue's friend; - -Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, - -While resignation gently slopes the way; - -{018} - -And, all his prospects brightening to the last, - -His heaven commences ere the world be past. - - -[Illustration: 0035] - - -Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, - -Up yonder hill the village murmur rose: - -There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, - -The mingling notes came soften'd from below; - -The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, - -The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; - -The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, - -The playful children just let loose from school; - -{019} - -The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, - -And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; - - -[Illustration: 0038] - - -These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, - -And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. - -But now the sounds of population fail: - -No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, - -No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, - -But all the bloomy flush of life is fled; - -All but yon widow'd solitary thing, - -That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: - -{020} - -She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, - -To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread - - -[Illustration: 0039] - - -To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, - -To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn; - -She only left of all the harmless train, - -The sad historian of the pensive plain. - -{021} - -Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, - -And still where many a garden flower grows wild, - - -[Illustration: 0042] - - -There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, - -The village preacher's modest mansion rose. - -A man he was to all the country dear, - -And passing rich with forty pounds a year; - -{022} - -Remote from towns he ran his godly race, - -Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place - - -[Illustration: 0043] - - -Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, - -By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; - -Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, - -More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. - -{023} - -His house was known to all the vagrant train; - -He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain: - - -[Illustration: 0046] - - -The long remember'd beggar was his guest, - -Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; - -The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, - -Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allow'd; - -{024} - -The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, - -Sate by his fire, and talk'd the night away; - -Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, - -Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. - -Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, - -And quite forgot their vices in their woe; - -Careless their merits or their faults to scan, - -His pity gave ere charity began. - -Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, - -And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; - -But in his duty prompt, at every call, - -He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all: - -And, as a bird each fond endearment tries - -To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, - -He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, - -Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. - -Beside the bed where parting life was laid, - -And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, - -The reverend champion stood. At his control, - -Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; - -{025} - -Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, - -And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. - - -[Illustration: 0050] - - -At church, with meek and unaffected grace, - -His looks adorn'd the venerable place; - -Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, - -And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray. - -The service past, around the pious man, - -With ready zeal each honest rustic ran: - -{026} - -E'en children follow'd with endearing wile, - -And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile - - -[Illustration: 0051] - - -His ready smile a parent's warmth express'd, - -Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distress'd - -To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, - -But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. - -As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, - -Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, - -{027} - -Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, - -Eternal sunshine settles on its head. - - -[Illustration: 0054] - - -Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way - -With blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay, - -There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, - -The village master taught his little school: - -A man severe he was, and stern to view; - -I knew him well, and every truant knew: - - -[Illustration: 0055] - - -Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee -At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; - -{028} - -Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace - -The day's disasters in his morning face: - -Full well the busy whisper, circling round, - -Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd; - -{029} - -Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, - -The love he bore to learning was in fault: - -The village all declared how much he knew; - -'Twas certain he could write and cipher too: - -Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, - -And e'en the story ran that he could gauge: - - -[Illustration: 0058] - - -In arguing too the parson own'd his skill, - -For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still; - -{030} - -While words of learned length, and thundering sound, - -Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; - -And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew - -That one small head could carry all he knew. - -But past is all his fame: the very spot, - -Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. - - -[Illustration: 0059] - - -Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, - -Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, - -Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, - -Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, - -{031} - -Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, - -And news much older than their ale went round. - - -[Illustration: 0062] - - -Imagination fondly stoops to trace - -The parlour splendours of that festive place; - -The white-wash'd wall, the nicely-sanded floor, - -The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; - -{032} - -The chest contrived a double debt to pay, - -A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; - -The pictures placed for ornament and use, - -The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose - -The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day, - -With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay - -While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for show, - -Ranged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row. - -Vain, transitory splendours! could not all - -Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall I - -Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart - -An hour's importance to the poor man's heart: - -Thither no more the peasant shall repair - -To sweet oblivion of his daily care: - -No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, - -No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; - -No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, - -Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear; - -The host himself no longer shall be found - -Careful to see the mantling bliss go round; - -Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest, - -Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest. - -{033} - -Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, - -These simple blessings of the lowly train: - -To me more dear, congenial to my heart, - -One native charm, than all the gloss of art; - -Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, - -The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; - -Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, - -Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined. - - -[Illustration: 0066] - - -But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, - -With all the freaks of wanton wealth array'd, - -In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, - -The toilsome pleasure sickens into pain; - -{034} - -And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, - -The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy? - -Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey - -The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, - -'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand - -Between a splendid and a happy land. - - -[Illustration: 0067] - - -Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, - -And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; - -Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, - -And rich men flock from all the world around. - -Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name - -That leaves our useful product still the same. - -{035} - -Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride - -Takes up a space that many poor supplied; - -Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, - -Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; - -The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth - -Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; - -His seat, where solitary sports are seen, - -Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; - -Around the world each needful product flies, - -For all the luxuries the world supplies: - -While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, - -In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. - -As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, - -Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, - -Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, - -Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; - -But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, - -When time advances, and when lovers fail, - -She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, - -In all the glaring impotence of dress; - -Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, - -In nature's simplest charms at first array'd; - -{036} - -But verging to decline, its splendours rise, - -Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; - -While, scourged by famine, from the smiling land - -The mournful peasant leads his humble band; - -And while he sinks, without one arm to save, - -The country blooms--a garden and a grave! - -Where then, ah! where shall poverty reside, - -To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? - - -[Illustration: 0071] - - -If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, - -He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, - -Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, - -And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. - -{037} - -If to the city sped--What waits him there? - -To see profusion, that he must not share; - -To see ten thousand baneful arts combined - -To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; - -To see each joy the sons of pleasure know, - -Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe. - - -[Illustration: 0074] - - -Here, while the courtier glitters in brocade, - -There the pale artist plies the sickly trade; - -Here, while the proud their long-drawn pomp display, - -There the black gibbet glooms beside the way; - -{038} - -The dome where pleasure holds her midnight reign, - -Here, richly deck'd, admits the gorgeous train; - -Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, - -The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. - -Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy! - -Sure these denote one universal joy! - -Are these thy serious thoughts? Ah, turn thine eyes - -Where the poor houseless shivering female lies: - -She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, - -Has wept at tales of innocence distrest; - - -[Illustration: 0075] - - -Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, - -Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; - -{039} - -Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, - -Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, - -And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, - -With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour - -When idly first, ambitious of the town, - -She left her wheel and robes of country brown. - -Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest train, - -Do thy fair tribes participate her pain? - -E'en now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led, - -At proud men's doors they ask a little bread! - -Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene, - -Where half the convex world intrudes between, - -Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, - -Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe. - -Far different there from all that charm'd before, - -The various terrors of that horrid shore; - -Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, - -And fiercely shed intolerable day; - -Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, - -But silent-bats in drowsy clusters cling; - -{040} - -Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, - -Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; - -Where at each step the stranger fears to wake - -The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; - - -[Illustration: 0079] - - -Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, - -And savage men more murderous still than they; - -While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, - -Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. - -Far different these from every former scene, - -The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, - -{041} - -The breezy covert of the warbling grove, - -That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love. - - -[Illustration: 0082] - - -Good Heaven! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day, - -That call'd them from their native walks away! - -When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, - -Hung round the bowers, and fondly look'd their last, - -And took a long farewell, and wish'd in vain - -For seats like these beyond the western main; - -And shuddering still to face the distant deep, - -Return'd and wept, and still return'd to weep. - -The good old sire the first prepared to go - -To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe; - -{042} - -But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, - -He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave. - -His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, - -The fond companion of his helpless years, - - -[Illustration: 0083] - - -Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, - -And left a lover's for her father's arms. - -With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes, - -And bless'd the cot where every pleasure rose; - -And kiss'd her thoughtless babes with many a tear, - -And clasp'd them close, in sorrow doubly dear; - -{043} - -Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief, - -In all the silent manliness of grief. - - -[Illustration: 0086] - - -O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, - -How ill exchanged are things like these for thee! - -How do thy potions, with insidious joy, - -Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! - -Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, - -Boast of a florid vigour not their own: - -At every draught more large and large they grow, - -A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe; - -{044} - -Till, sapp'd their strength, and every part unsound, - -Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round. - -E'en now the devastation is begun, - -And half the business of destruction done; - -E'en 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; - - -[Illustration: 0087] - - -Downward they move, a melancholy band, - -Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. - -Contented toil, and hospitable care, - -And kind connubial tenderness, are there; - -And piety, with wishes placed above, - -And steady loyalty, and faithful love. - -{045} - -And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, - -Still first to fly where sensual joys invade, - -Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, - -To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; - -Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, - -My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; - -Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, - -That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; - - -[Illustration: 0090] - - -Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, - -Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well! - -Farewell! and oh! where'er thy voice be tried, - -On Torno's cliffs, or Pambamarca's side, - -Whether where equinoctial fervors glow, - -Or winter wraps the polar world in snow, - -{046} - -Still let thy voice, prevailing over time, - -Redress the rigours of the inclement clime. - -Aid slighted Truth with thy persuasive strain: - -Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; - -Teach him, that states of native strength possest, - -Though very poor, may still be very blest; - -That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, - -As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; - -While self-dependent power can time defy, - -As rocks resist the billows and the sky. - - -[Illustration: 0091] - - - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DESERTED VILLAGE *** - -***** This file should be named 50500.txt or 50500.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/5/0/50500/ - -Produced by David Widger from page images generously -provided by Google Books - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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