Solitude / With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts

by Johann Georg Zimmermann

To where religion, peace, and comfort dwell,

And cheer with heavenly rays the lonely cell:

To where no ruffling winds, no raging seas,

Disturb the mind amidst its pensive ease:

Each passion calm; where mild affections shine,

The soul-enjoying quietude divine:

Unknown in private or in public strife,

Soft sailing down the placid stream of life:

Aw’d by no terrors, by no cares perplex’d;

My life a gentle passage to the next.”