Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Campion. 1567?1619175. Integer Vitae
THE man of life upright, | |
Whose guiltless heart is free | |
From all dishonest deeds, | |
Or thought of vanity; | |
The man whose silent days | 5 |
In harmless joys are spent, | |
Whom hopes cannot delude, | |
Nor sorrow discontent; | |
That man needs neither towers | |
Nor armour for defence, | 10 |
Nor secret vaults to fly | |
From thunder’s violence: | |
He only can behold | |
With unaffrighted eyes | |
The horrors of the deep | 15 |
And terrors of the skies. | |
Thus, scorning all the cares | |
That fate or fortune brings, | |
He makes the heaven his book, | |
His wisdom heavenly things; | 20 |
Good thoughts his only friends, | |
His wealth a well-spent age, | |
The earth his sober inn | |
And quiet pilgrimage. |