[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!