...: One only roaster grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. * t * * * And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. » * * * * A time there was, ere England's grief began. For him light labour spread her vjholeiome...

...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild. There,...

...with unmingled satisfaction. In his deliberate judg10 ment, "El fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; A BREATH can make them, as a breath has made : 15 But a BOLD PEASANTRY, their country's pride,...

...cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the moldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or...

...cries; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or...

...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall . And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish or...

...country, while in fact they hedge and wall out its real life and soul — iu hanrr peasantry. 10 tares inement would only serve to make their poverty ridiculous,...give them a taste for pleasures they had no right to fade; A breath can make them as a breath has made; «ma bold peasantry, their country's pride, When...

...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 29 Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village...

...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. * * * * THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 29 Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the...

...ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoilers hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or...