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Robert W Service - Tranquillity
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Oh if it were not for my wife
       And family increase,
How gladly would I close my life
       In monastery peace!
A sweet and scented isle I know
       Where monks in muteness dwell,
And there in sereness I would go
              And seek a cell.
              
On milk and oaten meal I`d live,
       With carrot, kail and cheese;
The greens that tiny gardens give,
       The bounty of the bees.
Then war might rage, I would not know,
       Or knowing would not care:
No echo of a world of woe
              Would irk me there.

And I would be forgotten too
       As mankind I forgot;
Read Shakespeare and the Bible through,
       And brood in quiet thought.
Content with birds and trees and flowers
       In mellow age to find
`Mid monastery`s holy hours
              God`s Peace of Mind.
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