A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
TRUE HAPPINESS.
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TRUE HAPPINESS.
From Apollodorus.
And is this it? (sure, nothing less)Is this, my friend, true happiness?
The Diamond's sparkle to behold,
To drink in glowing cups of gold,
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Thy board with dainty meats to crown,
In barns capacious to contain
The plenteous crops of Lybia's plain?
True happiness is this, To fear
No threat'ning look of danger near,
To heed the Mob's nor love nor hate,
And not to start at coming Fate.
This will a genuine bliss secure
In spite of Fortune, and her power.
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