INFLUENCE SOCIALE ET POLITIQUE DES MOINES CHEZ LES ANGLO SAXONS

Record we too, ^vitll just and faithful pen,

That many hooded cénobites there are,

Wlio in their private cells hâve yet a care

Of public quiet; unambitious Men,

Counsellors for the world, of piercing ken;

Whose fervent exhortations from afar

Move Princes to their duty, peace or war;

And oft-times in the most forbidding den

Of solitude, "with love of science strong,

How patlently the yoke of thought they bear...

By such examples moved to unbought pains

The people work like congregated bées ;

Eager to build the quiet fortresses,

Where piety, as they believe, obtains

From heaven a gênerai blessing; timely rains

And sunshine ; prospérons enterprise, and peace, and equity.