Classic Poem

To have a house commodious, fit, and fair,
With an espalier'd garden scented through;
Good fruits and wines, small train, a child or two;
And to possess in peace one's true-love there;
To have nor debt, nor feud, nor love-affair;
With family lawsuits having naught to do;
Easy content, not courting the proud few;
Conforming all to some well-proven square;
Frankly to live, unvexed with vain desire;
Given, doubt-free, to real devotion's fire;
To rule one's passions, training them to heel;
To keep an open mind and judgment clear;
While at one's daily toil to pray with zeal;—
Thus biding calm at home, till Death appear.