...pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain...! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms...

...her walls, And oped a smooth and easy way to death. (c) The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain...face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place. (d) Far diff'rent these from ev'ry former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy...

...tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired : The dancing pair that simply sought renown, 25 By holding out 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 of love, The matron's glance, that would...

...pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd. The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to 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 of love ; The matron's glance that...

...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...

...pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown By holding out 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 of love, The matron's glance that would...

...pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd; The dancing pair, that simply sought renown By holding out to tire each other down; The swain...round the place; The bashful virgin's side-long looks oflove, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove; These were thy charms sweet village; sports...

...pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown By holding out 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 of love. The matron's glance that would...

...The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love, 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 to please; These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms —...

...pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown By holding out to tire each other down! The swain...mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong look of love, The matron's glance that would...