The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/His Wish (It is sufficient if we pray)

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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2652907The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
His Wish
1898Alfred Pollard

153. HIS WISH.

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.