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