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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508040" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Birth-Day Ode 03</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wouldst thou seek the low abode<br> Where PEACE delights to dwell?<br> Pause Traveller on thy way of life!<br> With many a snare and peril rife<br> Is that long labyrinth of road:<br> Dark is the vale of years before<br> Pause Traveller on thy way!<br> Nor dare the dangerous path explore<br>Till old EXPERIENCE comes to lend his leading ray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Not he who comes with lanthorn light<br> Shall guide thy groping pace aright<br> With faltering feet and slow;<br> No! let him rear the torch on high<br> And every maze shall meet thine eye,<br> And every snare and every foe;<br> Then with steady step and strong,<br> Traveller, shalt thou march along.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Tho' POWER invite thee to her hall,<br> Regard not thou her tempting call<br> Her splendors meteor glare;<br> Tho' courteous Flattery there await<br> And Wealth adorn the dome of State,<br> There stalks the midnight spectre CARE;<br> PEACE, Traveller! does not sojourn there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> If FAME allure thee, climb not thou<br> To that steep mountain's craggy brow<br> Where stands her stately pile;<br> For far from thence does PEACE abide,<br> And thou shall find FAME'S favouring smile<br>Cold as the feeble Sun on Heclas snow-clad side,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Traveller! as thou hopest to find<br> That low and loved abode,<br> Retire thee from the thronging road<br>And shun the mob of human kind.<br>Ah I hear how old EXPERIENCE schools,<br>&quot;Fly fly the crowd of Knaves and Fools<br> &quot;And thou shalt fly from woe;<br>&quot;The one thy heedless heart will greet<br>&quot;With Judas smile, and thou wilt meet<br> &quot;In every Fool a Foe!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So safely mayest thou pass from these,<br>And reach secure the home of PEACE,<br> And FRIENDSHIP find thee there.<br>No happier state can mortal know,<br>No happier lot can Earth bestow<br> If LOVE thy lot shall share.<br>Yet still CONTENT with him may dwell<br> Whom HYMEN will not bless,<br>And VIRTUE sojourn in the cell<br> Of HERMIT HAPPINESS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southey">Robert Southey</a><div class=q>
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 Where PEACE delights to dwell?
 Pause Traveller on thy way of life!
 With many a snare and peril rife
 Is that long labyrinth of road:
 Dark is the vale of years before
 Pause Traveller on thy way!
 Nor dare th..."></div>
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