...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, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound ? ' Even now, perhaps,...

...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...

...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 smiling long-frequented village fall 1 Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their...

...make What cannot be, slight work." Line 90. Goldsmith feelingly alludes to the miseries of exile : " 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, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To...

...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, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To...

...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, To...

...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, To...

...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, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? Even now, perhaps,...

...depopulation in her train — And over fields where scatter'd hamlets rose, i In barren solitary pomp repose ? 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, a melancholy train, To...

...depopulation in her train, And over fields, where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren, solitary pomp repose f 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, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To...