Ode To Peace.
Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! Return, and make thy downy nest Once more in this sad heart: Nor riches I nor power pursue, Nor hold forbidden joys in view; We therefore need not part. Where wilt thou dwell, if not with me, From avarice and ambition free, And pleasures fatal wiles? For whom, alas! dost thou prepare The sweets that I was wont to share, The banquet of thy smiles? The great, the gay, shall they partake The heaven that thou alone canst make? And wilt thou quit the stream That murmurs through the dewy mead, The grove and the sequesterd shed, To be a guest with them? For thee I panted, thee I prized, For thee I gladly sacrificed Whateer I loved before; And shall I see thee start away, And helpless, hopeless, hear thee say Farewell! we meet no more?
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"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest!..."
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