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...much would their beauty be marred by the transfer of a single circumstance from one to the other : •How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered...the cultivated farm ; The never-failing brook, the buny mill, The decent church that topped the neiglib'ring hill; The Imwthorn-bush with seats beneath...

...Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's...green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene t •The locality of thiti poem is supposed to be I. --••., near Ballyrcahan. where the poet's...

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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...I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness adorned each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm,...

...plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed:...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...

...could please1 How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene1 How often have I paused on every charm! The sheltered cot; the cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topped the neighboring hill ; The hawthorn...

...some little valley or dell, which with a glimpse of the sea, amply repays the labour bestowed. " For often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never- failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hill." Sometimes...