Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Source: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
-- Thomas Gray, (Dec 26 1716-1771), English poet; His An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard is one of the best known of English lyric poems.