Poems (Truesdell)/A Wish

by Helen Truesdell

A WISH.

If I should ask a gift for thee—
 'T would be a guileless heart,
All full of tender sympathy,
 And free from every art.

And then I'd ask another heart
 With thine to fondly blend,
That thou mightst hold in converse sweet,
 And be to thee a friend.