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,
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First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.
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[Lat., Quoniam id fieri read more
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[Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest
Id velis quod possis.]
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Is like a prayer--with God.
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Is like a prayer--with God.
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have wished it so.
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You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you
have wished it so.
[Fr., Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous
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Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
