HIS WISH.
by Robert Herrick


IT is sufficient if we pray
To Jove, who gives and takes away :
Let him the land and living find ;
Let me alone to fit the mind.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 71.


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