<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508924" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tranquillity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh if it were not for my wife<br> And family increase,<br>How gladly would I close my life<br> In monastery peace!<br>A sweet and scented isle I know<br> Where monks in muteness dwell,<br>And there in sereness I would go<br> And seek a cell.<br> <br>On milk and oaten meal I'd live,<br> With carrot, kail and cheese;<br>The greens that tiny gardens give,<br> The bounty of the bees.<br>Then war might rage, I would not know,<br> Or knowing would not care:<br>No echo of a world of woe<br> Would irk me there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I would be forgotten too<br> As mankind I forgot;<br>Read Shakespeare and the Bible through,<br> And brood in quiet thought.<br>Content with birds and trees and flowers<br> In mellow age to find<br>'Mid monastery's holy hours<br> God's Peace of Mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508924" data-title="Tranquillity de Robert William Service" data-description="Oh if it were not for my wife And family increase, How gladly would I close my life In monastery peace! A sweet and scented isle I know Where monks in muteness dwell, And there in sereness I would go And seek a cell. On milk and oaten meal I..."></div> </div> </div>

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