“The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”

—  Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 121.

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Irish physician and writer 1728–1774

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