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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. |