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 What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,
 Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.  
 What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,
 Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. 
 Every wish
 Is like a prayer--with God.  
 Every wish
 Is like a prayer--with God. 
Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
 As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
 [Lat., Quoniam id fieri read more 
 As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
 [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest
  Id velis quod possis.] 
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted
 If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
 Let this be my fate in a read more 
 If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
 Let this be my fate in a country town;
  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,
   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.
    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,
     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,
      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.
   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish, 
 With all thy sober charms possest,
 Whose wishes never learnt to stray.  
 With all thy sober charms possest,
 Whose wishes never learnt to stray. 
 Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
 Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
  Where read more 
 Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
 Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
  Where several worthies make one dignity,
   Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. 
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.