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...depopulation in her train, And over fields where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose ? Have we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling...long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, Where...

...Depopulation in her train, And over fields, where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren, solitary pomp repose? Have we not seen, at Pleasure's lordly call, The smiling, long-frequented village fall 1 Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forced from their...

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...settles on its head. * The idea of the Deserted Village was thrown out at the close of the Traveller, (Have we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The...long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes. . .) and on the general...

...depopulation in her train, And over fields where scatter* d hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose? Have we not seen at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling...long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous sou, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy...