WISHES OF AN ELDERLY MAN WISHED AT A GARDEN PARTY, JUNE 1914 - Gilbert E. Brooke Poems

 
 

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WISHES OF AN ELDERLY MAN WISHED AT A GARDEN PARTY, JUNE 1914

I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!