Most of these towns are named from Oliver Goldsmith's popular 18th century poem, "The Deserted Village", which begins:
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed
Auburn University gets its name from the town in which it is located, Auburn, Alabama. It gets its nickname "Tigers" from line 355: "Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey". AU is also called "the loveliest village on the plain", as referenced in the first line of the poem.
The poem was about the village Athlone, Ireland, Goldsmith's childhood home. He lived in Lissoy Parsonage, which was also called Auburn.
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Auburn practiced inside Jordan-Hare Stadium for the second Wednesday in a row this week, and the Tigers are closing in on their first weekend off since the season began.
Go inside to get the latest on Auburn as the Tigers continue preparations for rival for their big in-state rival.
Auburn released its 2008 football schedule Wednesday, which will open with a home game against Louisiana-Monroe Aug. 30 followed by AU's first-ever game at West Virginia Sept. 6.
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