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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner
Drummond, William (1585-1649)

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[xlix] A Wish.

To forge to mightie Ioue
The Thunder-bolts aboue,
Nor on this Round below
Rich Midas Skill to know,
And make all Gold I touch,
I doe not craue, nor other Cunning such:
For all those Artes bee vnderneath the Skie,
I wish but Phillis Lapidare to bee.
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