VIRTUE IS SENSIBLE OF SUFFERING.
by Robert Herrick


THOUGH a wise man all pressures can sustain,
His virtue still is sensible of pain :
Large shoulders though he has, and well can bear,
He feels when packs do pinch him, and the where.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 72.
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