...and whispering lovers made. How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its tum to play, And all the village train, from labour free,...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; 20 And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength...

...has a stronger note, in The Deserted Village, of regret, of something lost: How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went...

...nostalgia tropes culminates in the celebrated description of village recreation: How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went...

...provides not only shade but also represents a kind of generic pastoral framework: How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed. (1l. 16-20) For Raymond Williams, Goldsmith's detail of the hawthorn administers a noxious...

...beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made; How often have I blessed the coming day, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went...