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With a Few Introductory Observations George Croly. FROM " THE DESERTED VILLAGE . " Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain , Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain , Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid , And ...
With a Few Introductory Observations George Croly. FROM " THE DESERTED VILLAGE . " Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain , Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain , Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid , And ...
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... Sweet Auburn , parent of the blissful hour , Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power . Here , as I take my solitary rounds , Amidst thy tangling walks , and ruined grounds , And , many a year elapsed , return to view Where once ...
... Sweet Auburn , parent of the blissful hour , Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power . Here , as I take my solitary rounds , Amidst thy tangling walks , and ruined grounds , And , many a year elapsed , return to view Where once ...
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... sweet AUBURN , thine , the lovelies Do thy fair tribes participate her pain ? E'n now , perhaps , by cold and hunger led , At proud men's doors they ask a little bread ' Ab , no . To distant climes , a dreary scene , Where half the ...
... sweet AUBURN , thine , the lovelies Do thy fair tribes participate her pain ? E'n now , perhaps , by cold and hunger led , At proud men's doors they ask a little bread ' Ab , no . To distant climes , a dreary scene , Where half the ...
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