Deserted Village, The

DESCRIPTION: "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew... Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge." A story of how small farmers were being pushed aside by landlords
AUTHOR: Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) (source: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
EARLIEST DATE: 1770 (various Internet sources)
KEYWORDS: farming home abandonment
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 58, "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew" (1 fragment)
Roud #25491
File: KSUC058A

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