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    The Village and The Newspaper
    The Village and The Newspaper
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    The Village and The Newspaper

    By George Crabbe

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    Release dateJun 1, 2004
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      The Village and The Newspaper - George Crabbe

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      Title: The Village and The Newspaper

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      The Village and The Newspaper by George Crabbe (1754-1832)

      Contents

         The Village

            Book 1

            Book 2

         The Newspaper

      THE VILLAGE

      BOOK I. - THE ARGUMENT.

      The Subject proposed - Remarks upon Pastoral Poetry - A Tract of Country near the Coast described - An Impoverished Borough - Smugglers and their Assistants - Rude Manners of the Inhabitants - Ruinous Effects of the High Tide - The Village Life more generally considered: Evils of it - The Youthful Labourer - The Old Man: his Soliloquy - The Parish Workhouse: its Inhabitants - The sick Poor: their Apothecary - The dying Pauper - The Village Priest.

      The Village Life, and every care that reigns

      O’er youthful peasants and declining swains;

      What labour yields, and what, that labour past,

      Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last;

      What form the real Picture of the Poor,

      Demand a song - the Muse can give no more.

         Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains,

      The rustic poet praised his native plains:

      No Shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse,

      Their country’s beauty or their nymphs rehearse;

      Yet still for these we frame the tender strain,

      Still in our lays fond Corydons complain,

      And shepherds’ boys their amorous pains reveal,

      The only pains, alas! they never feel.

         On Mincio’s banks, in Caesar’s bounteous reign,

      If Tityrus found the Golden Age again,

      Must sleepy bards the nattering dream prolong,

      Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song?

      From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray,

      Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way?

         Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains,

      Because the Muses never knew their pains:

      They boast their peasant’s pipes; but peasants now

      Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough;

      And few, amid the rural tribe, have time

      To number syllables and play with rhyme;

      Save honest DUCK, what son of verse could share

      The poet’s rapture and the peasant’s care?

      Or the great labours of the field degrade,

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