<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537813" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Retirement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, <br>From strife and tumult far; <br>From scenes where Satan wages still <br>His most successful war. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The calm retreat, the silent shade, <br>With prayer and praise agree; <br>And seem, by Thy sweet bounty made, <br>For those who follow Thee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There if Thy Spirit touch the soul, <br>And grace her mean abode, <br>Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, <br>She communes with her God! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There like the nightingale she pours <br>Her solitary lays; <br>Nor asks a witness of her song, <br>Nor thirsts for human praise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Author and Guardian of my life, <br>Sweet source of light Divine, <br>And, -- all harmonious names in one, -- <br>My Saviour! Thou art mine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What thanks I owe Thee, and what love, <br>A boundless, endless store, <br>Shall echo through the realms above, <br>When time shall be no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537813" data-title="Retirement de William Cowper" data-description="Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree; And seem, by Thy sweet bounty made, For those wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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