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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WISH, by JABEZ HUGHES
First Line: Ye powers who sway the skies above
Last Line: A safe retreat from future woe!
Subject(s): Melancholy; Wishes; Dejection
First Line: Ye powers who sway the skies above
Last Line: A safe retreat from future woe!
Subject(s): Melancholy; Wishes; Dejection
Ye Powers who sway the skies above,
The load of mortal life remove:
I cannot, labouring thus, sustain
Th'excessive burthen of my pain!
A dance of Pleasures, hurrying by,
Enduring griefs, a glimpse of joy,
With blessings of a brittle kind,
Inconstant, shifting as the wind,
Are all your suppliant has known
Since first his lingering race begun.
In pity, then, pronounce my fate,
And here conclude my shortened date;
'Tis all I ask you, to bestow
A safe retreat from future woe!
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