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To Dependence - ZaunköniG - 27.05.2007
To Dependence
Dependence! heavy, heavy are the chains,
And happier they who from the dangerous sea,
Or the the dark mine, procure with ceaseless pains
And hard-earned pittance – than who trust to thee!
More blest the hind, who from his bed of flock
Starts – when the birds of morn their summons give,
And wakened by the lark – “ “the shepherd’s clock,”
Lives but to labor – laboring but to live.
More noble than the sycophant, whose art
must heap with tawdry flowers thy hated shrine;
I envy not the meed thou canst impart
To crown his service – while, though pride combine
With fraud to crush me-my unfettered heart
Still to the Mountain Nymph may offer mine.