The word <em>wishing </em>is used as a participle in this case. Although gerunds and participles look the same, they are used in different senses - gerunds generally denote nouns, whereas participles have more of an adverbial meaning.
The house in "The Deserted House" is a metaphor for a dead body or dead person.
The poem opens with "life and thought have gone away" speaking of a person who has died and no longer has life or thoughts. It continues in Lines 1-3 describing the emptiness of the house, showing the stillness and emptiness of death.
In Line 4 "The house was builded of the earth, And shall fall again to ground." refers to a body being buried, similar to the common funeral phrase "from dust to dust"
Line 5 refers to the person in Heaven- "in a city glorious-- A great and distant city--have bought A mansion incorruptible." Incorruptible in this line means everlasting or unable to decay, showing that the person, (the "mansion") will stay there forever.
The poem ends with "Would they could have stayed with us!" in reference to the person who has died-wishing they had not "moved" to heaven and instead could have stayed alive.
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AIDS is a communicable disease that causes the destruction of the immune system and when left untreated can cause death. The AIDS epidemic began in the 1980s and caused millions of deaths around the world, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, when there was no effective mechanism to combat AIDS. That has changed in this century, as there are now effective treatments that can prolong the life of a seropositive for the average normal period of the population. However, around the world many people still die from not having adequate access to treatment. Finally, it is noteworthy that the HIV-positive community suffers a lot of prejudice and discrimination, which must be combated through awareness campaigns.
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