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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Content, To My Dearest Lucasia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Content, the false World's best disguise, <br>The search and faction of the Wise, <br>Is so abstruse and hid in night, <br>That, like that Fairy Red-cross Knight, <br>Who trech'rous Falshood for clear Truth had got, <br>Men think they have it when they have it not. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Courts Content would gladly own, <br>But she ne're dwelt about a Throne: <br>And to be flatter'd, rich, and great, <br>Are things which do Mens senses cheat. <br>But grave Experience long since this did see, <br>Ambition and Content would ne're agree. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some vainer would Content expect <br>From what their bright Out-sides reflect: <br>But sure Content is more Divine <br>Then to be digg'd from Rock or Mine: <br>And they that know her beauties will confess, <br>She needs no lustre from a glittering dress. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Mirth some place her, but she scorns <br>Th'assistance of such crackling thorns, <br>Nor owes her self to such thin sport, <br>That is so sharp and yet so short: <br>And Painters tell us, they the same strokes place <br>To make a laughing and a weeping face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Others there are that place Content <br>In Liberty from Government: <br>But who his Passions do deprave, <br>Though free from shackles is a slave. <br>Content and Bondage differ onely then, <br>When we are chain'd by Vices, not by Men. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some think the Camp Content does know, <br>And that she fits o'th' Victor's brow: <br>But in his Laurel there is seen <br>Often a Cypress-bow between. <br>Nor will Content herself in that place give, <br>Where Noise and Tumult and Destruction live. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet the most Discreet believe, <br>The Schools this Jewel do receive, <br>And thus far's true without dispute, <br>Knowledge is still the sweetest fruit. <br>But whil'st men seek for Truth they lose their Peace; <br>And who heaps Knowledge, Sorrow doth increase. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now some sullen Hermite smiles, <br>And thinks he all the World beguiles, <br>And that his Cell and Dish contain <br>What all mankind wish for in vain. <br>But yet his Pleasure's follow'd with a Groan, <br>For man was never born to be alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Content her self best comprehends <br>Betwixt two souls, and they two friends, <br>Whose either joyes in both are fixed, <br>And multiply'd by being mixed: <br>Whose minds and interests are still the same; <br>Their Griefs, when once imparted, lose their name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These far remov'd from all bold noise, <br>And (what is worse) all hollow joyes, <br>Who never had a mean design, <br>Whose flame is serious and divine, <br>And calm, and even, must contented be, <br>For they've both Union and Society. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, my Lucasia, we have <br>Whatever Love can give or crave; <br>With scorn or pity can survey <br>The Trifles which the most betray; <br>With innocence and perfect friendship fired, <br>By Vertue joyn'd, and by our Choice retired. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks, <br>Or else each others Hearts and Looks; <br>Who cannot wish for other things <br>Then Privacy and Friendship brings: <br>Whose thoughts and persons chang'd and mixt are one, <br>Enjoy Content, or else the World hath none. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous Submission</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katherine+Philips">Katherine Philips</a><div class=q>
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The search and faction of the Wise, 
Is so abstruse and hid in night, 
That, like that Fairy Red-cross Knight, 
Who trech'rous Falshood for clear Truth had got, 
Men think they have it when they have it n..."></div>
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