English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 145. Integer Vitae |
| | | Thomas Campion (1567(?)–1620) |
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| THE MAN of life upright, | |
| Whose guiltless heart is free | |
| From all dishonest deeds, | |
| Or thought of vanity; | |
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| The man whose silent days | 5 |
| In harmless joys are spent, | |
| Whom hopes cannot delude, | |
| Nor sorrow discontent; | |
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| That man needs neither towers | |
| Nor armour for defence, | 10 |
| Nor secret vaults to fly | |
| From thunder’s violence: | |
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| He only can behold | |
| With unaffrighted eyes | |
| The horrors of the deep | 15 |
| And terrors of the skies. | |
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| Thus, scorning all the cares | |
| That fate or fortune brings, | |
| He makes the heaven his book, | |
| His wisdom heavenly things; | 20 |
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| Good thoughts his only friends, | |
| His wealth a well-spent age, | |
| The earth his sober inn | |
| And quiet pilgrimage. | |
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