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Our wills and fates do so contrary run, / That our devices still are overthrown. / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
Rapp found himself in a stronghold which was strong in theory only. For the frozen river formed the easiest possible approach, instead of an insuperable barrier to the enemy. He had an army which was a paper army only.