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THE

VILLAGE:

POEM

IN TWO BOOKS.

BOOK I.

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 a 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.

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