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My Studies

Translation of Thomas Budd Shaw

IN solitude my soul, my wayward inspiration

I’ve schooled to quiet toil, to fervent meditation.

I’m master of my days; order is reason’s friend;

On graver thoughts I’ve learned my spirit’s powers to bend:

I seek to compensate, in freedom’s calm embraces,

For the warm years of youth, its joys and vanished graces,

And to keep equal step with an enlightened age.