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Resolution

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I see the work of others, and my heart         Sinks as my own achievement I compare.         I will not be irresolute, nor despair,         But battle strongly for my struggling art         Convinced against conviction that my part         Equally with my masters I can bear;         Although their monuments are very fair,         Enriched with statues, and I stand apart         And gaze upon my little heap of stones         Which I was given to build with, very few         As yet laid into place, but I will lay         Blind to these marble monuments and thrones,         Building as though I confidently knew         My ultimate end,, a stone in place each day.

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