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I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.
[Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]
Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie.
[Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
What! upon compulsion? No!
What! upon compulsion? No!
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
