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FOR A COPY OF 'THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD' by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: BY GOLDSMITH'S TOMB THE CITY'S CRY
Last Line: BY GOLDSMITH'S TOMB!
Subject(s): GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1730-1774);

BY GOLDSMITH'S tomb the City's cry
Grows faint and distant; now no more,
From that famed street he trod of yore,
Men turn where those old Templars lie!

Only some dreamer such as I
Pauses awhile from dust and roar
BY GOLDSMITH'S tomb!

And then -- ah, then! -- when none is nigh,
What shadowy shapes, unseen before,
Troop back again from Lethe's shore! --
How the ghosts gather then, and sigh
BY GOLDSMITH'S tomb!



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