...the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an ev'ning group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw ; And as a hare, whom hounds...past, Here to return — and die at home at last. Oh, bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care, that never must be mine, How...

...bright'ning to the last, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, His Heav'n commences ere the world be past. Here to return, and die at home at last. O, blest retirement ! friend to life's decline, GOLDSMITH* Retreat from care, which never can be mine, TRANSLATION. Inter tot curas, luctusque ubicunque...

...Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare when hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence...decline, Retreat from cares, that never must be mine, Howblest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits...

...the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare whom hounds...horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O blest...

...: — " And :i •; a hare whom honnds and horns pnrsne, PanU to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last." Oliver Goldsmith might have been a better man, but it is impossible not to love him and to recognize...

...the swains to show my book-lcarn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, 'ants to the place from whence at first be flew, still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return...

...the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds...last. O, blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine ! How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth...

...the swains to show my book-learn'd skill , Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And , as a hare whom hounds...horns pursue , Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes , my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last. O...

...skill — Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And as an hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place...first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations pass'd, Here to return — and die at home at last. O bless'd retirement, friend to life's decline,...

...the swains to show my beok-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursua, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew. [ still had hopes, 'my long vexations past,...