Say, did you not all pleasures find,

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Of which you left so few behind?

I think you did: for well I know

My parting prayer would make it so.

"May she," I said, "life's choicest goods partake;

Those, late in life, for nobler still forsake—

The bliss of one, th' esteem'd of many live,

With all that Friendship would, and all that Love can give!"