Public Domain Poetry And Stories - The Purpose by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The Purpose

    By Ella Wheeler Wilcox



    Over and over the task was set,
        Over and over I slighted the work,
    But ever and alway I knew that yet
        I must face and finish the toil I shirk.

    Over and over the whip of pain
        Has spurred and punished with blow on blow;
    As ever and alway I tried in vain
        To shun the labour I hated so.

    Over and over I came this way
        For just one purpose:    O stubborn soul!
    Turn with a will to your work to-day,
        And learn the lesson of SELF-CONTROL.



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