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Oh solitude, my sweetest choice
Oh solitude, my sweetest choice
Places devoted to the night
Remote from tumult and from noise
Are ye my restless thoughts delight
Oh solitude, my sweetest choice
Oh hence what content is mine
To see those trees which have appeared
From the nativity of time
And which all ages have revered
To look today as fresh and green
As when their beauties first were seen
Oh how agreeable a sight
These hanging mountains do appear
Which the unhappy would invite
To finish all their sorrows here
When their hard fate makes them endure
Such woes as only death can cure
Oh how I solitude adore
That element of noblest wit
Where I have learnt Apollo's lore
Without the pains to study it
For thy sake I in love am grown
With what thy fancy does pursue
But when I think upon my own
I hate it for that reason too
Because it needs must hinder me
From seeing and from serving thee
Oh solitude, my sweetest choice