Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PURPOSES, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: No wrath of men, or rage of seas
Last Line: That he holds firmly to the end.


No wrath of Men, or rage of Seas
Can shake a just mans purposes:
No threats of Tyrants, or the Grim
Visage of them can alter him;
But what he doth at first entend,
That he holds firmly to the end.





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