Arts & Sciences
Oliver Goldsmith
From Poems (1889)
Arts & Sciences
Goldsmith wrote of deserted village,
Now again reduced to tillage,
Once happiest village of the plain,
The place you look for it in vain,
There but one man he doth make rich,
While hundreds struggle in the ditch,
His honest vicar of Wakefield,
Forever he will pleasure yield.
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MLA
McIntyre, James. “Oliver Goldsmith.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/mcintyre/107/.
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McIntyre, James. “Oliver Goldsmith.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/mcintyre/107/.
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