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SONNET XXXIX. TO SOLITUDE.
4th February, 1807.
Oh, Solitude, thou hast no moderate pain!
Thy griefs are cureless; it were far more wise
To chase of busy life the vanities
And fretting incidents, than court thy reign
Of deep, profoundest gloom. Alas, in váin
Ye seek for peace whose least sensations rise
Above the cold heart's loftiest ecstacies,
By stern proscription of amusement's train.
Better to toil in bleak life's thorny field;
Be galled by interruptions that estrange
Thy thoughts from what thou art; than when the range
Of outward forms withdraw, till then concealed,
To find an inward chaos that will yield
To nought save fortune, time, and place, and change.
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