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The Wish

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That you might happier be than all the rest,     Than I who have been happy loving you,     Of all the innocent even the happiest--     This I beseeched for you.     Until I thought of those unending skies--     Of stagnant cloud, or fleckless dull blue air,     Of days and nights delightless, no surprise,     No threat, no sting, no fear;     And of the stirless waters of the mind,     Waveless, unfurrowed, of no living hue,     With dead eaves dropping slowly in no wind,     And nothing flowering new.     And then no more I wished you happiness,     But that whatever fell of joy or woe     I would not dare, O Sweet, to wish it less,     Or wish you less than you.

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