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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Little I ask, my wants...
Little I ask, my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own;- And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)

Little I ask, my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own;- And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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