Chapter 388
My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills My father fed his flocks.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1728-1774.
THE TRAVELLER.
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow.
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Where er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view.
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Such is the patriot's boast, where er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home.
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By sports like these are all his cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child.
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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar. But bind him to his native mountains more.
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Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by.
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For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Forced from their homes, a melancholy train.
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THE DESERTED VILLAGE.
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For talking age and whispering lovers made.
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Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay, Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
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And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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A youth of labor with an age of ease.
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While resignation gently slopes the way-- And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past!
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And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
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Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
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And even his failings leaned to virtue's side.
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Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
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And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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The village master taught his little school.
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Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
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For even though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
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Contrived a double debt to pay.
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One native charm than all the gloss of art.
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The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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O Luxury! thou cursed by Heaven's decree.
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RETALIATION.
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Who mixed reason with pleasure and wisdom with mirth.
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Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
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Though equal to all things, for all things unfit.
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An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man.
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VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.