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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2652935The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
Virtue Is Sensible of Suffering
1898Alfred Pollard

158. VIRTUE IS SENSIBLE OF SUFFERING.

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.