<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=584331" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written In Zimmermanns Solitude.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HAIL, melancholy sage! whose thoughtful eye,<br>Shrunk from the mere spectator's careless gaze,<br>And, in retirement sought the social smile,<br>The heart-endearing aspect, and the voice<br>Of soothing tenderness, which Friendship breathes,<br>And which sounds far more grateful to the ear,<br>Than the soft notes of distant flute at eve,<br>Stealing across the waters: Zimmermann!<br>Thou draw'st not Solitude as others do,<br>With folded arms, with pensive, nun-like air,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And tearful eye, averted from mankind.<br>No! warm, benign, and cheerful, she appears<br>The friend of Health, of Piety, and Peace;<br>The kind Samaritan that heals our woes,<br>The nurse of Science, and, of future fame<br>The gentle harbinger: her meek abode<br>Is that dear home, which still the virtuous heart,<br>E'en in the witching maze of Pleasure's dance,<br>In wild Ambition's dream, regards with love,<br>And hopes, with fond security, to pass<br>The evening of a long-protracted day,<br>Serenely joyful, there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matilda+Betham">Matilda Betham</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=584331" data-title="Written In Zimmermanns Solitude. de Matilda Betham" data-description="HAIL, melancholy sage! whose thoughtful eye, Shrunk from the mere spectator's careless gaze, And, in retirement sought the social smile, The heart-endearing aspect, and the voice Of soothing tenderness, which Friendship breathes, And which sounds ..."></div> </div> </div>

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