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SCGCJ.772.057
9 Jun 1772:21 (341)
London, March 28. Sir Lucius O'Brien, in a late debate in
the Irish House of Commons, relative to a bill for the
better regulation of the hospital for disabled soldiers,
after describing the necessity for such a comfortable
sanctuary in old age, concluded his description very
oppositely from the four following lines of Dr. Goldsmith's
Deserted Village:
"The broken soldier kindly bade to stay,
Sat by the fire, and talked the night away,
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,
Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won."
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