"Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, 

 Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, 

 Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid, 

 And parting Summer's lingerings blooms delayed ! 

 Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease — 

 Seats of my youth, when every sport could please! 

 How often have I loitered o'er thy green. 

 Where humble happiness endeared each scene!" 



— Goldsmith. 



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