"What are the splendours of the gaudy court, Its tinsel trappings, and its pageant pomps? To me far happier seems the banish’d lord, Amid Siberia’s unrejoicing wilds Who pines all lonesome, in the chambers hoar Of some high castle shut, whose windows dim In distant ken discover trackless plains, Where Winter ever whirls his icy car; While still repeated objects of his view, The gloomy battlements, and ivied spires, That crown the solitary dome, arise; While from the topmost turret the slow clock, Far heard along th’ inhospitable wastes, With sad-returning chime awakes new grief; Ev’n he far happier seems than is the proud, The potent Satrap, whom he left behind ’Mid Moscow’s golden palaces, to drown In ease and luxury the laughing hours."
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Thomas Warton the Yr., The Pleasures of Melancholy (1747)
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