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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems,
elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions] |
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| Translated out of Gazæus, Vota Amico |
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| facta. fol. 160. |
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| God grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine, |
| Thou, who dost, best friend, in best things out-shine; |
| May thy soul, ever chearful, ne'r know cares, |
| Nor thy life, ever lively, know gray hairs. |
| Nor thy hand, ever open, know base holds, |
| Nor thy purse, ever plump, know pleits, or folds. |
| Nor thy tongue, ever true, know a false thing, |
| Nor thy word, ever mild, know quarrelling. |
| Nor thy works, ever equal, know disguise, |
| Nor thy fame, ever pure, know contumelies. |
| Nor thy prayers, know low objects, stil Divine; |
| God grant thee thine own wish, and grant thee mine.
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[CW: To] |
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