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Virtue is Sensible of Suffering

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Though a wise man all pressures can sustain,
His virtue still is sensible of pain:
Large shoulders though he has, and well can bear,
He feels when packs do pinch him, and the where.

Published in Hesperides
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