The Joy Of Research
How happy is the blameless Vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot:
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep; ’
Desires compos’d, affections ever ev’n;
Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav’n.
- From 'ELOÏSA TO ABELARD'