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A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

179. PURPOSES

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No wrath of men, or rage of seas, Can shake a just man's purposes; No threats of tyrants, or the grim Visage of them can alter him; But what he doth at first intend, That he holds firmly to the end.

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