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MY WISH, by                    
First Line: Unto the world's great diadem
Last Line: I'd rest content.
Subject(s): Contentment; Wishes


UNTO the world's great diadem
Could I but add one simple gem
Ere life were spent,
One heart-sprung lay, whose softening chime
Should echo through the halls of time,
I'd rest content.

I ask no part with those who wrought
The mighty pyramids of thought.
Our heritage,
Unshaken by the drifting sand
Of endless change, serene they stand
From age to age.

If on the placid sea of time
The zephyr of my simple rhyme
Should ripple make,
Which widening ever through the years
Upon the distant misty shores
At last should break,

Then feeling that I have not been
A borrower of the dust in vain,
When life was spent,
And that unto the crown of thought
This simple jewel I had brought,
I'd rest content.





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