Here, free from riot's hated noise, <br />Be mine, ye calmer, purer joys, <br />A book or friend bestows; <br />Far from the storms that shake the great, <br />Contentment's gale shall fan my seat, <br />And sweeten my repose.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/inscription-for-a-moss-house-in-the-shrubbery-at-weston/
