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If we had found the woodland wishing-well, What would you wish for?

What does youth and prime And old age wish for, Very Beauty.

Aye! But what is Very Beauty, seeking which Sculptor, painter, and poet have differing aims, Young Anthony still scribbles in his book Whilst Yves the Sonnet's sequence still pursues, Yet each is longing for and seekingwhat? And where to find it, that we all would know.

Maybe that I can tell you, there are days When Nature seems so near to us, so kind,