Inscription for a Moss-House in the Shrubbery at Weston

by William Cowper

Here, free from riot's hated noise,
Be mine, ye calmer, purer joys,
    A book or friend bestows;
Far from the storms that shake the great,
Contentment's gale shall fan my seat,
    And sweeten my repose.


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