The Deserted VillageS.E. Cassino, 1892 - 42 pages |
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adorn'd Amidst thy array'd bade beneath Beside bless'd blest bliss blooms breast brook busy clime cottage dear decay DESERTED VILLAGE distress'd draught e'en e'er endearing famine fares the land feebly fenceless fled flies fond fondly gale griefs guest half HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY hawthorn heart heaven hounds hour humble idly innocence knew labor learn'd leave the land looks loveliest luxury man's mansion mantling mirth murmurs o'er pain past plain pleasure plenty pomp poor pride proud reprove Return'd rich rose round ruin'd rustic scene seats shade shed shelter'd shore sickly silent sinks smiling solitary sorrow splendors spread spurn statesmen swain SWEET Auburn Swells talk'd thee THEODORE JEWETT EASTMAN thine thorn Thou thy bowers thy charms Thy glades thy green thy voice tide tire toil trade's train tyrant's Unwieldy vacant mind virtue virtue's waits wand'rings wealth weep wept whisp'ring wish'd wretched yonder
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Page 8 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind, These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 3 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Page 17 - Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Page 21 - Contented Toil, and hospitable Care, And kind connubial Tenderness are there; And Piety with wishes placed above, And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love. 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...
Page 16 - 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?
Page 18 - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; 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.
Page 14 - 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.
Page 15 - 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.
Page 20 - To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe ; But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, He only wished for worlds beyond the grave. His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, The fond companion of his helpless years, Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, And left a lover's for a father's arms.
Page 7 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...