84).
SOUTH VIEW FROM GOLDSMITH'S MOUNT.
In this sketch 'the decent church,' at the top of the hill in the
distance, is an important object, from its exact correspondence with the
situation given it in the poem. Half-way up stands the solitary ruin of
Lord Dillon's castle. The hill in shadow, on the left, is above the
village, and is supposed to be alluded to in the line --
Up yonder hill the distant murmur rose.
A flat of bogland extends from the narrow lake in the centre to the
mount on the right of the foreground (p. 84).
THE PARSONAGE.
A south view from the Athlone road, which runs parallel with the stone
wall, and nearly east and west: the gateway is that mentioned in
Goldsmith's letter*, the mount being directly opposite, in a field
contiguous with the road.
[footnote] *See note to l. 114 of 'The Deserted Village'.
The ruinous stone wall in this and three other sketches, which is a
frequent sort of fence in the neighbourhood, gives a characteristic
propriety to the line (48)
And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall.
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