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THE

VILLAGE.

BOOK I.

THE village life, and every care that reigns
O'er youthful peasants and declining swains;
What labour yields, and what, that labour past,
Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last;
What forms the real picture of the poor,
Demands a song——The Muse can give no more.

B
Fled