...Village," the chief beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,...

...beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the beath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,...

...make for magic. The following description of the Aldborough neighbourhood is a very good example : Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Keign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And...

...— Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles...

...copied, in every touch, from the scene of the Poet's nativity and boyish days : — •• Loi when the heath, with withering brake grown o'er. Lends...neighbouring poor ; From thence a length of burning sanu appear*, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears , Rank weeds, that every art and care...

...— Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour 1 Lo ! where the heath with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor j From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank...

...— Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring pooi ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears...

...fragment from the " Village," which is simply a description of the neighbourhood of Aldborough : — Lo I where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Eeign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And...

...person, he thus resents the colour and variety of the unprofitable vegetation of the coast : — Lo 1 where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warm* the neighbouring poor. From thence a length of burning sand appears. Where the thin harvest ware*...

...clear-cut descriptions of Nature, Crabbe prepared the way for Wordsworth, as eg in the following passage : From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest wavea its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the...