[00:07.960]O!Solitude,my sweetest choise
[00:20.760]O!Solitude
[00:27.600]O!Solitude,My sweetest choise
[00:42.310]Please devoted to the night,
[00:51.600]Remote from tumult,and from noise,
[00:59.900]How you my restless thoughts delight!
[01:11.550]O!Solitude
[01:18.450]O!Solitude,My sweetest choise
[01:35.650]O Heavens!what content is mine,
[01:44.320]To see those trees which have appear’d
[01:50.170]From the nativity of Time,
[01:56.960]And which hall ages have rever’d,
[02:02.500]To look to-day as fresh and green,
[02:09.140]To look to-day as fresh and green,
[02:15.400]As when their beauties first were seen!
[02:27.950]O!how agreeable a sight
[02:36.540]These hanging mountains do appear,
[02:44.250]Which the unhappy would invite
[02:49.900]To finish all their sorrows here,
[02:56.210]When their hard fate makes them endure
[03:12.000]Such woes,
[03:15.050]Such woes, as only death can cure.
[03:30.500]O!how I Solitude adore,
[03:47.300]O!how I Solitude adore,
[03:47.300]That element of noblest wit.
[04:12.900]Where I have learnt Apollo’s lore.
[04:21.700]Without the pains, the pains to study it:
[04:33.750]For thy sake I in love am grown
[04:43.000]With what thy fancy,thy fancy does pursue;
[04:52.255]But when I think upon my own,
[04:59.550]I hate it,I hate it for that reason too.
[05:11.864]Because it needs must hinder me
[05:18.400]From seeing,from seeing,and from serving thee.
[05:37.000]O!Solitude
[05:44.000]O!how I Solitude adore.