water wood or steel or ancient stone
\nor foot or hand or lip can soon engage
\nor thought can take the soul so far away
\nthat even wild conjecture soon outgrown<\/p>\n
will fail to estimate the consequence
\nof seldom found or wanted solitude
\nthat turns the heart from socially approved
\ntowards contrary but wished for ends<\/p>\n
and so we end with action all pretence
\nand so we come undone with fatal friends<\/p>\n
and so our thoughts descend to places rude
\nand so misuse such simple solitude<\/p>\n
that thus we end our days to sadness thrown
\nto wood or water, steel or ancient stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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