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THE OLD MAN’S WISH.
A S«ng by .Dr. POPE.
Benjamin Franklin L L D speaking of the
following song, in a letter to his friend George
Whately Etq i reasurer of the Foundling Hos-
.pit.l, London-, says, < What signifies our wish-
it g V Things happen after all as they will hap¬
pen. I hare sung
that wishing Song a thousand times whrn 1 was
young, and now find at fourscore that the three
contraries have befallen me ; beiag subject to the
gout, and the stone, and not being yet master of
all ir.y passions Like the prouf gtrl in my
country, Who wishsd and resolved not to marry
a Parson, nor a Presbyterian, nor an Irishman,
and at length found herself married to an i«i:h
Presbyterian Parson lv
IF I live to grow old, for I find I go down,
L't this be my fate:—in » neat country town,
May H have a warm house, with a stone at the-
fate.
And a cleanly youiif girl, to tub my bald pate.
Choiujs.
I govern my passion.with an abioluts