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Give me the haunch of a buck to eat, / And to drink Madeira old; / And a gentle wife to rest with, / And in my arms to fold.
An Arabic book to study, / A gipsy pony to ride; / And a house to live in shaded by trees, / Near to a river's side.
With such good things around me, / And with good health withal, / Though I should live for a hundred years / For death I would not call.
Previously printed, with a slightly different text, and arranged in / six lines instead of in three four-line stanzas, in "Lavengro", 1851, / Vol. i, p. 306.