 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...cot ; the cultivated farm ; The never-failing brook ; the busy mill ; The decent church that topped the neighboring hill ; The hawthorn bush, with seats...talking age and whispering lovers made! How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play ; And all the village train, from... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring lull, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For...age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...bowers of innocence and ease, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats...shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made ! 6 How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its aid to play, And all the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...SCOTT, Prose Works, vol. iii. p. 250, edit. 1834. • See also Life, ch. xix.] How often have I bless'd the coming day,* When toil remitting lent its turn...free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a... | |
 | John Norton-Smith - 1983 - 164 pages
...with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made! 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; While many a pastime circled in the shade,... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pages
...cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,...lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade,... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pages
...cultivated farm; The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topt the neighb'ring hill. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,...lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree; While many a pastime circled in the shade,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthom bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its tum to play, And all the village train, from labour... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...has a stronger note, in The Deserted Village, of regret, of something lost: How often have I blessed 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, While many a pastime circled in the shade,... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 pages
...cultivated farm, 10 The never failing brook, the busy mill. The decent 1 church that topt the neighbouring hill. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade....lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade,... | |
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How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree... 
