The Wish

Well then; I now do plainly see

This busy world and I shall ne’er agree.

The very honey of all earthly joy

Does of all meats the soonest cloy;

And they (methinks) deserve my pity

Who for it can endure the stings,

The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings

Of this great hive, the city.

Ah, yet, ere I descend to th’ grave

May I a small house and large garden have!

And a few friends, and many books, both true,

Both wise, and both delightful too!

And since love ne’er will from me flee,

A mistress moderately fair,

And good as guardian angels are,

Only belov’d, and loving me.

O fountains! when in you shall I

Myself eas’d of unpeaceful thoughts espy?

O fields! O woods! when shall I be made

The happy tenant of your shade?

Here’s the spring-head of Pleasure’s flood:

Here’s wealthy Nature’s treasury,

Where all the riches lie that she

Has coin’d and stamp’d for good.

Pride and ambition here

Only in far-fetch’d metaphors appear;

Here nought but winds can hurtful murmurs scatter,

And nought but Echo flatter.

The gods, when they descended, hither

From heaven did always choose their way:

And therefore we may boldly say

That ’tis the way too thither.

How happy here should I

And one dear she live, and embracing die!

She who is all the world, and can exclude

In deserts solitude.

I should have then this only fear:

Lest men, when they my pleasures see,

Should hither throng to live like me,

And so make a city here.

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• Robert Burns: Verses To Collector Mitchell : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Jockey’s Taen The Parting Kiss: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Crowdie Ever Mair: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: News, Lassies, News: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Wren’s Nest: Fragment by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Leezie Lindsay: Fragment by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Inscription: Written on the blank leaf of a copy of the last edition of my poems, presented to the Lady whom, in so many fictitious reveries of passion, but with the most ardent sentiments of real friendship, I have so often sung under the name of-“Chloris.” by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: O That’s The Lassie O’ My Heart : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: This Is No My Ain Lassie: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Braw Wooer: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Why, Why Tell The Lover: Fragment, by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Their Groves O’Sweet Myrtle : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: How Cruel Are The Parents: Altered from an old English song. tune-“John Anderson, my jo.” by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On Chloris Being Ill: by Robert Burns

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