<h2><SPAN name="poem61"></SPAN>THE WISH</h2>
<p class="poetry">Should some great angel say to me to-morrow,<br/>
“Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the
start,<br/>
But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow,<br/>
Some one dear wish, the nearest to thy
heart.”</p>
<p class="poetry">This were my wish!—from my life’s
dim beginning<br/>
<i>Let be what has been</i>! wisdom planned the
whole<br/>
My want, my woe, my errors, and my sinning,<br/>
All, all were needed lessons for my soul.</p>
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