These Blessings, Reader, may Heav’n grant to thee;
A faithful friend, equal in Love’s degree;
Land fruitful, never conscious of the Curse,
A liberal Heart and never-failing Purse;
A smiling conscience, a contented mind;
A temp’rate Knowledge with true Wisdom join’d;
A Life as long as fair, and when expir’d,
A kindly death, unfear’d as undesir’d.
Poor Richard’s Almanack
December 1745