...! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...delayed ; Dear, lovely bowers of innocence and ease, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighboring hill, The hawthorn...

...loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...delayed; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seals of my youth, when every sport could please ; How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where...

...loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...charm ! The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm ; The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn...

...loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...have I loitered o'er thy green Where humble happiness ewdeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm ! The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm...

...loveliest village of the plain, Where health muj plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed; Dear lovely bowers of ianocence and ease, Seals of my youth, when every sport could please ; How often have I loitered o'er...

...loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I pavised on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the bus}'...

...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,...

...loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheared the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...each scene; How often have I paused on every charm . . . (lines 1-9) Space in The Deserted Village is thus not Derridean espacement, the various effects...

...loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling NAA the green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene. (1. 1—8) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; LiTB; NOBE;...

...loveliest village of the plain. Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...youth, when every sport could please. How often have 1 loitered o'er thy green. Where humble happiness endeared each scene; How often have I paused on every...