MEAN THINGS OVERCOME MIGHTY.
by Robert Herrick


BY the weak'st means things mighty are o'erthrown :
He's lord of thy life who contemns his own.



[AJ Note:  cf. "Loss From The Least". ]

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 48.


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