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Purposes

by Robert Herrick, 1648

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.

Published in Hesperides
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