Bring me, gentle Simplicity
To where a hovel your steps awaits,
To where the wine stem half receives;
And the flowering branch overhangs.
Lead me to your small family
Take me, as a trustworthy disciple, in.
Let me, listening to your words,
Become verily Truth’s student.
That no desolate noise drown out
Noble song to my ears,
That my ears receive not sharp sounds
More than Antiquity’s silken beauty.
Have me dare pick up the lyre;
Spur me to embrace my duty to action;
Most beatiful nymph! escape me not:
Embellish my Life and my Song.
(Anthoni Christiaan Winand Staring)
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