Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Notes of August 1842, published in Charles Kingsley : His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883) edited by Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, p. 65.
“(Take a wish!)
My wish is…
…To be free,
To be wild,
And to be just
Like a child!”
Song lyrics, Tr3s Lunas (2002)
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