Come, peace of mind, delightful guest! <br />Return and make thy downy nest <br />Once more in this sad heart: <br />Nor riches I, nor power pursue, <br />Nor hold forbidden joys in view, <br />We therefore need not part. <br /> <br />Where wilt thou dwell if not with me, <br />From avarice and ambition free, <br />And pleasure's fatal wiles? <br />For whom, alas! dost thou prepare <br />The sweets that I was wont to share, <br />The banquet of thy smiles? <br /> <br />The great, the gay, shall they partake <br />The heaven that thou alone canst make; <br />And wilt thou quit the stream <br />That murmurs through the dewy mead, <br />The grove and the sequestered shed, <br />To be a guest with them? <br /> <br />For thee I panted, thee I prized, <br />For thee I gladly sacrificed <br />Whate'er I loved before; <br />And shall I see thee start away, <br />And helpless, hopeless, hear thee say-- <br />Farewell! we meet no more?<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-peace-5/