...secret laughter tittered round the place ; «OLDSM1TH. The bashful virgin's ride-lone looks of lore, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove...their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — bat all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled,...

...tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's side-long looks...were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. GOLDSMITH. A MAY-DAY SONG. 205 XXIV. A MAY-DAY SONG. " THERE is a want too much lost sight of in our...

...tire each other down ; The swaift, mistrustless of his smutted face, While eecret laughter tittered y, the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country : I hope he will anticipate Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up younder hill the village murmur rose ; There...

...tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There as...

...labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: Still, as in Thomson, under that hawthorn ! These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. But the sweet succession is in fact a series of literary reminiscences: a dissolving of the lives and...

...to tire each other down, The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place, The bashful virgin's side-long looks...that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms . . . (lines 9-31) We notice first the continual syntactic expansion. Goldsmith begins with two items...

...face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place; The bashful virgin's side-long looks oflove, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove;...taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bowers thy chearful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. This passage...

...to tire each other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. 30 These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil...

...his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong look of love, The matron's glance that would those looks...village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms —...