No wrath of men, or rage of seas,
Can shake a just man's purposes;
No threats of tyrants, or the grim
Visage of them can alter him;
But what he doth at first intend,
That he holds firmly to the end. 

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Poet: Robert Herrick
Poem: PURPOSES

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Dec 24 2005
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