Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells, <br />Where honeysuckle smiles and smells, <br />A bleating flock, some lowing kine, <br />An honest welcome always mine, <br />A homely draught, a humble meal, <br /> <br />Leisure to live, to think, to feel, <br />A narrow plot, a prospect wide, <br />A patch upon the mountain side! <br />From these my heart you will not wean <br />For Fashion's tinsel, Splendour's sheen, <br />The Sceptre's favour, Senate's prize, <br />No, nor the Empire of your eyes. <br />Farewell! The Valley be your own! <br />And I will scale the heights,-alone.<br /><br />Alfred Austin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/give-me-a-roof-where-wisdom-dwells/
