The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Virtue Is Sensible of Suffering

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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
Virtue Is Sensible of Suffering
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Virtue Is Sensible of Suffering
1898Robert Herrick

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.