<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567549" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Solitude</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Written in her fourteenth year.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet Solitude! I love thy silent shade, <br>I love to pause when in life's mad career; <br>To view the chequered path before me laid, <br>And turn to meditate — to hope, to fear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is sweet to draw the curtain on the world, <br>To shut out all its tumult, all its care; <br>Leave the dread vortex, in which all are whirled, <br>And to thy shades of twilight calm repair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, Solitude, the hand divine, which made <br>The earth, the ocean, and the realms of air, <br>Pointed how far thy kingdom should extend, <br>And bade thee pause, for he had fixed thee there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, when disgusted with the world and man, <br>When sick of pageantry, of pomp, and pride, <br>To thee I'll fly, in thee I'll seek relief, <br>And hope to find that calm the world denied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lucretia+Maria+Davidson">Lucretia Maria Davidson</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=567549" data-title="On Solitude de Lucretia Maria Davidson" data-description="(Written in her fourteenth year.) Sweet Solitude! I love thy silent shade, I love to pause when in life's mad career; To view the chequered path before me laid, And turn to meditate — to hope, to fear. 'T is sweet to draw the curtain on t..."></div> </div> </div>

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