<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539294" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Indolence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! why for ever on the wing<br>Persists my wearied soul to roam?<br>Why, ever cheated, strives to bring<br>Or pleasure or contentment home?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus the poor bird, that draws his name<br>From Paradise's honour'd groves,<br>Careless fatigues his little frame,<br>Nor finds the resting-place he loves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! on the rural mossy bed<br>My limbs with careless ease reclined;<br>Ah, gentle Sloth! indulgent spread<br>The same soft bandage o'er my mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For why should lingering thought invade,<br>Yet every worldly prospect cloy?<br>Lend me, soft Sloth! thy friendly aid,<br>And give me peace, debarr'd of joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lov'st thou yon calm and silent flood,<br>That never ebbs, that never flows;<br>Protected by the circling wood<br>From each tempestuous wind that blows?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An altar on its bank shall rise,<br>Where oft thy votary shall be found;<br>What time pale Autumn lulls the skies,<br>And sickening verdure fades around.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye busy Race! ye factious Train!<br>That haunt ambition's guilty shrine;<br>No more perplex the world in vain,<br>But offer here your vows with mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thou, puissant Queen! be kind:<br>If e'er I shared thy balmy power,<br>If e'er I sway'd my active mind<br>To weave for thee the rural bower;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dissolve in sleep each anxious care;<br>Each unavailing sigh remove;<br>And only let me wake to share<br>The sweets of friendship and of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Shenstone">William Shenstone</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=539294" data-title="Ode to Indolence de William Shenstone" data-description="Ah! why for ever on the wing Persists my wearied soul to roam? Why, ever cheated, strives to bring Or pleasure or contentment home? Thus the poor bird, that draws his name From Paradise's honour'd groves, Careless fatigues his little frame, Nor f..."></div> </div> </div>

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