...done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That...above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! Unfit, in these...

...done ; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale, 400 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented...

...land : — " E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind, connubial...placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love." But the farmer ought to have something more than a mere living price for his products. He ought to...

...historian, again converting loss into gain, as the landscape fills up with the virtues that are leaving it: "Downward they move a melancholy band, / Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand" (lines 401-2). We have yet one more catalogue arraying toil and care, tenderness and piety, loyalty...

...destruction done; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land, Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 400 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand, Contented...

...403-6 of The Deserted Village, a description of those very rural virtues, as the epigraph to his poem: Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial...placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. But Kirby's poem does not use the rural virtues to attract the muse, since they do not yet exist in...

...land: Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 220 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. 2 " 26. artisan. 27. gallows. 28. spinning-wheel. 29. beach or shoreline. And kind connubial tenderness,...

...destruction done; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land: Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail. That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 220 Downward they move, a melancholy band. Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.2' 26. artisan....

...results: Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land . . . Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the...And kind connubial tenderness are there . . . And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid . . . (lines 399-400, 403-6, 409-10) While many, such as Samuel...

...destruction done; Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, 1 see the rural virtues leave the land: Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly...above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these...