Should some great angel say to me to-morrow, <br /> “Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start, <br />But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow, <br /> Some one dear wish, the nearest to thy heart.’ <br /> <br />This were my wish! from my life’s dim beginning <br /> Let be what has been! wisdom planned the whole; <br />My want, my woe, my errors, and my sinning, <br /> All, all were needed lessons for my soul.<br /><br />Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wish-4/
