[00:07.63]O solitude, my sweetest choice!
[00:37.37]Places devoted to the night,
[00:45.71]Remote from tumult and from noise,
[00:47.92]How ye my restless thoughts delight!
[01:03.88]O solitude, my sweetest choice!
[01:24.58]O heav'ns! what content is mine
[01:31.87]To see these trees, which have appear'd
[01:37.94]From the nativity of time,
[01:43.18]And which all ages have rever'd,
[01:48.91]To look today as fresh and green
[01:54.62]As when their beauties first were seen.
[02:11.70]O, how agreeable a sight
[02:24.09]These hanging mountains do appear,
[02:27.18]Which th' unhappy would invite
[02:32.34]To finish all their sorrows here,
[02:37.92]When their hard fate makes them endure
[02:52.95]Such woes as only death can cure.
[03:08.94]O, how I solitude adore!
[03:19.54]That element of noblest wit,
[03:39.14]Where I have learnt Apollo's lor
[03:55.56]Without the pains to study it.
[04:06.15]For thy sake I in love am grown
[04:10.50]With what thy fancy does pursue
[04:22.87]But when I think upon my own
[04:29.87]I hate it for that reason too,
[04:40.24]Because it needs must hinder me
[04:46.78]From seeing and from serving thee
[05:01.71]O solitude, O how I solitude adore!