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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rest

Rest is not quitting

The busy career;

Rest is the fitting

Of self to one's sphere:


'Tis the brook's motion,

Clear without strife;

Fleeting to ocean,

After its life:


'Tis loving and serving

The highest and best;

'Tis onward, unswerving,

And this is true rest.