<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468724" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A simple, cheerful active life on earth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A simple, cheerful, active life on earth,<br>A cup I’d not exchange for monarch’s chalice,<br>In noble forebears’ tracks a path since birth,<br>With equal dignity in hut and palace,<br>With eye as when created heav’nward turned,<br>All beauty here and grandness keenly knowing,<br>Familiar though with those things deeply yearned,<br>Stilled only by eternity’s bright glowing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wished for all my line just such a life,<br>And zealously I planned for its fruition,<br>And when my soul grew tired from toil and strife,<br>The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ was its rest and its nutrition.<br>Then from truth’s spirit I great comfort gained,<br>And felt joy hover o’er each garden border,<br>When dust is placed in its creator’s hand<br>And all is waited for in nature’s order:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just fresh, green buds that sprout in early spring,<br>And in the summer heat the flowers’ profusion;<br>And when the plants mature and long to bring<br>Their harvest fruit to autumn’s full conclusion!<br>The human span assigned is short or long,<br>It is for common weal, its yield is growing;<br>The day that started well will end as strong,<br>And just as sweet will be its afterglowing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nicolaj+Frederik+Severin+Grundtvig">Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468724" data-title="A simple, cheerful active life on earth de Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig" data-description="A simple, cheerful, active life on earth, A cup I’d not exchange for monarch’s chalice, In noble forebears’ tracks a path since birth, With equal dignity in hut and palace, With eye as when created heav’nward turned, All beauty here and gr..."></div> </div> </div>

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