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...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiterM o'er thy green, Where humble happiness emlear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on every...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd — Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please — 6 _ How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ; How...

...laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit pays, And parting summer's lingering bloom delays. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness adorned each scene ! How often have I paused on every...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease! Seats of my youth, when every sport could please1 How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene1 How often...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd: young musicians began their usual concert. endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The >hf Itrr',l cot, the cultivated.farm,...

...GOLDSMITH. SWEET Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where -humble happiness endeared each scene ; How often have I paused on every...

...on pastoral commonplace, which is at a iitcrary as well as an historical distance from its object. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease Seats of my youth, when every sport could please. It is not only the amalgamation of the memory of childhood and the memory of the village: it is that,...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed, Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene; How often have I paused on every...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please. How often have I loitered o'er the green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene. (1. 1—8) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA;...