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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scenes Favourable To Meditation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wilds horrid and dark with o'er shadowing trees,<br>Rocks that ivy and briers infold,<br>Scenes nature with dread and astonishment sees,<br>But I with a pleasure untold;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though awfully silent, and shaggy, and rude,<br>I am charmed with the peace ye afford;<br>Your shades are a temple where none will intrude,<br>The abode of my lover and Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am sick of thy splendour, O fountain of day,<br>And here I am hid from its beams,<br>Here safely contemplate a brighter display<br>Of the noblest and holiest of themes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye forests, that yield me my sweetest repose,<br>Where stillness and solitude reign,<br>To you I securely and boldly disclose<br>The dear anguish of which I complain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, sweetly forgetting and wholly forgot<br>By the world and its turbulent throng,<br>The birds and the streams lend me many a note<br>That aids meditation and song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, wandering in scenes that are sacred to night,<br>Love wears me and wastes me away,<br>And often the sun has spent much of his light<br>Ere yet I perceive it is day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While a mantle of darkness envelops the sphere,<br>My sorrows are sadly rehearsed,<br>To me the dark hours are all equally dear,<br>And the last is as sweet as the first.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here I and the beasts of the deserts agree,<br>Mankind are the wolves that I fear,<br>They grudge me my natural right to be free,<br>But nobody questions it here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though little is found in this dreary abode<br>That appetite wishes to find,<br>My spirit is soothed by the presence of God,<br>And appetite wholly resigned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye desolate scenes, to your solitude led,<br>My life I in praises employ,<br>And scarce know the source of the tears that I shed,<br>Proceed they from sorrow or joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's nothing I seem to have skill to discern,<br>I feel out my way in the dark,<br>Love reigns in my bosom, I constantly burn,<br>Yet hardly distinguish the spark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I live, yet I seem to myself to be dead,<br>Such a riddle is not to be found,<br>I am nourished without knowing how I am fed,<br>I have nothing, and yet I abound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, love! who in darkness art pleased to abide,<br>Though dimly, yet surely I see<br>That these contrarieties only reside<br>In the soul that is chosen of thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! send me not back to the race of mankind,<br>Perversely by folly beguiled,<br>For where, in the crowds I have left, shall I find<br>The spirit and heart of a child?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here let me, though fixed in a desert, be free;<br>A little one whom they despise,<br>Though lost to the world, if in union with thee,<br>Shall be holy, and happy, and wise.</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>
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Rocks that ivy and briers infold,
Scenes nature with dread and astonishment sees,
But I with a pleasure untold;

Though awfully silent, and shaggy, and rude,
I am charmed with the peace ye afford;
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