CLASSIC POEMS, FROM THE WRITINGS OF GOLDSMITH, BURNS, ELIOT, INGELOW, SCHILLER, TENNYSON, CAMPBELL, BYRON, COLERIDGE. MACAULAY, AYTOUN, POE AND GOETHE, REPRINTED FROM THE ELZEVIR LIBRARY, NEW YORK: JOHN B. ALDEN, PUBLISHER. 1887. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET AUBURN! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheer'd the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms display'd— Seats of my youth, where every sport could please- The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made; How often nave I bless'd the coming day When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, The young contending as the old surveyed, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round: Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired |