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When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
 He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
 And says he called another; that arrives,
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 He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
 And says he called another; that arrives,
  Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;
   Till one calls him, who varies not his call,
    But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,
     Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;
      A freedom far less welcome than this chain. 
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can read more
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
 Little I ask; my wants are few;
 I only wish a hut of stone
  (A very plain read more 
 Little I ask; my wants are few;
 I only wish a hut of stone
  (A very plain brown stone will do),
   That I may call my own;
    And close at hand is such a one
     In yonder street that fronts the sun. 
 I've often wished that I had clear,
 For life, six hundred pounds a year,
  A handsome house read more 
 I've often wished that I had clear,
 For life, six hundred pounds a year,
  A handsome house to lodge a friend,
   A river at my garden's end,
    A terrace walk, and half a rood
     Of land, set out to plant a wood. 
 You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you 
wish, Dondymus, I do not read more 
 You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you 
wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do. 
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.