I HAVE sought Happiness, but it has been a lovely rainbow, baffling all pursuit, and tasted Pleasure, but it was a fruit more fair of outward hue than sweet within. Renouncing both, a flake in the ferment of battling hosts that conquer or recoil, there only, chastened by fatigue and toil, I knew what came the nearest to content. For there at least my troubled flesh was free from the gadfly Desire that plagued it so; Discord and Strife were what I used to know, heartaches, deception, murderous jealousy; By War transported far from all of these, Amid the clash of arms I was at peace.
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a lovely rainbow, baffling all pursuit,
and tasted Pleasure, but it was a fruit
more fair of outward hue than sweet within.
Renouncing both, a flake in the ferment
of battling hosts that conquer or recoil,
there only, chastened by fatigue and toil,
I knew what came the nearest to content.
For there at least my troubled flesh was free
from the gadfly Desire that plagued it so;
Discord and Strife were what I used to know,
heartaches, deception, murderous jealousy;
By War transported far from all of these,
Amid the clash of arms I was at peace.
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