...from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. * * * * THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 29 Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close,...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive...

...Health ever blooming ; unambitious toil ; Calm contemplation, and poetic ease. THOMSON'S Seasons. 5. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below : The swain responsive...

...shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 29 Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close,...Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive...

...ancestors, commanded a general release of all those , who were confined in prison for debt." 17. " Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose." 18. "The relation of sleep to night appears to have been expressly intended by our benevolent Creator."...

...way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heav'n commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I pass'd with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below ; The swain responsive...

...village murmur rose; There as I past with careless steps, and slow, The mingled notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let...

...has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.... Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; 60 The swain responsive...

...was the sound when oft at evening's close. Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; 60 The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy...

...(75). By its form, apostrophe pretends to ignore the reader. In contrast, the verse paragraph beginning "Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, /Up yonder hill the village murmur rose" (113-14) drops apostrophe and personification ("Sweet" is not an epithet here), the lines sound less...

...of "the melodies of mom," in the Minstrel, f or of the melodies of evening in the Deserted Village: Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive...