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A modest wish

Index: INDEX/BCMSV/1615

Details

Type: Index

Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1615 (Lt 45 )

Title: A modest wish

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/99584

Reference

Manuscript: Lt 45

Pages: pp.212-13

Description

Notes: (As fields untilled)

First lines: As fields untill'd grow rank for want of use

And wild unprofitable herbs produce

Last lines: No idle hours in vanity to spend

And Agar's wish should all my wishes end

Length: 24

Verse form: Couplets

Contents: Religious poem, describing the uncontrolled and unprofitable nature of

undirected thoughts, praying for guidance that time might not be spent idly