'Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute —
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good —
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joanna Baillie Quotes

'Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute — Your life, your soul, ...

'Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute — Your life, your soul, ...

'Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute — Your life, your soul, ...

'Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute — Your life, your soul, ...