RESOLUTION
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I SEE the work of others, and my heart Sinks as my own achievement I compare. —I will not be irresolute, nor despair, But battle strongly for my struggling art
Convinced against conviction that my part Equally with my masters I can bear; Although their monuments are very fair, Enriched with statues, and I stand apart
And gaze upon my little heap of stones Which I was given to build with, very few As yet laid into place, but I will lay
—Blind to these marble monuments and thrones, Building as though I confidently knew My ultimate end,—a stone in place each day.