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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37910" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Retirement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When in the crimson cloud of Even,<br>The lingering light decays,<br>And Hesper on the front of Heaven<br>His glittering gem displays!<br>Deep in the silent vale, unseen,<br>Beside a lulling stream,<br>A pensive Youth of placid mien,<br>Indulged this tender theme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye cliffs, in hoary grandeur piled<br>High o'er the glimmering dale;<br>Ye woods, along whose windings wild<br>Murmurs the solemn gale;<br>Where Melancholy strays forlorn,<br>And Wo retires to weep,<br>What time the wan moon's yellow horn<br>Gleams on the western deep:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To you, ye wastes, whose artless charms<br>Ne'er drew Ambition's eye,<br>'Scaped a tumultuous world's alarms,<br>To your retreats I fly.<br>Deep in your most sequester'd bower<br>Let me at last recline,<br>Where Solitude, mild, modest Power,<br>Leans on her ivy'd shrine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How shall I woo thee, matchless Fair!<br>Thy heavenly smile how win!<br>Thy smile, that smoothes the brow of Care,<br>And stills the storm within.<br>O wilt thou to thy favourite grove<br>Thine ardent votary bring,<br>And bless his hours, and bid them move<br>Serene, on silent wing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft let remembrance soothe his mind<br>With dreams of former days,<br>When in the lap of Peace reclined<br>He framed his infant lays;<br>When Fancy roved at large, nor Care<br>Nor cold Distrust alarm'd,<br>Nor Envy with malignant glare<br>His simple youth had harm'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas then, O Solitude, to thee<br>His early vows were paid,<br>From heart sincere, and warm, and free,<br>Devoted to the shade.<br>Ah why did Fate his steps decoy<br>In stormy paths to roam,<br>Remote from all congenial joy! -<br>O take the wanderer home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine,<br>Thy charms my only theme;<br>My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine<br>Waves o'er the gloomy stream,<br>Whence the sacred owl on pinions gray<br>Breaks from the lone vale sails away<br>To more profound repose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O while to thee the woodland pours<br>Its wildly-warbling song,<br>And balmy from the banks of flowers<br>The zephyr breathes along;<br>Let no rude sounds invade from far,<br>No vagrant foot be nigh,<br>No ray from Grandeur's gilded car,<br>Flash on the startled eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if some pilgrim through the glade<br>Thy hallow'd bowers explore,<br>O guard from harm his hoary head,<br>And listen to his lore:<br>For he of joys divine shall tell<br>That wean from earthly wo,<br>And triumph o'er the mighty spell<br>That chains this heart below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For me no more the path invites<br>Ambition loves to tread;<br>No more I climb those toilsome heights<br>By guileful Hope misled;<br>Leaps my fond fluttering heart no more<br>To mirth's enlivening strain;<br>For present pleasure soon is o'er,<br>And all the past is vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Beattie">James Beattie</a><div class=q>
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