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A Will To Be Working

by Robert Herrick, 1647

Although we cannot turn the fervent fit
Of sin, we must strive ‘gainst the stream of it;
And howsoe’er we have the conquest miss’d,
’Tis for our glory that we did resist.

Published in Noble Numbers
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