Character of a happy man poem class 10 English
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Date: 26/06/2020

Character of a happy man. Class 10 Poem English.
About The Poet.
Sir Henry Wotton was born in 1568 in Kent (UK). He was a famous poet and diplomat. Wotton studied at Winchester and Oxford. In 1595 he was engaged by the Earl of Essex as agent and secretary. His poems and other writings were collected in 1651.  
About this poem :
The idea conveyed in this poem is that those who have lesser cares and ambitions in life are the most contented people. Those who are truthful and modest and do not fall a prey to pride and vices and have faith in God and honesty are truly happy.

The Character of a Happy Life
Sir Henry Wotton

How happy is he born and taught
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

Whose passions not his masters are;
Whose soul is still prepared for death,
Untied unto the world by care
Of public fame or private breath;

Who envies none that chance doth raise,
Nor vice; who never understood
How deepest wounds are given by praise;
Nor rules of state, but rules of good;

Who hath his life from rumours freed;
Whose conscience is his strong retreat;
Whose state can neither flatterers feed,
Nor ruin make oppressors great;

Who God doth late and early pray
More of His grace than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend;

—This man is freed from servile bands
Of hope to rise or fear to fall:
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.

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