 How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...  Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Seite 6von Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...nostalgia tropes culminates in the celebrated description of village recreation: How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went... | |
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