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Read, sweet, how others strove, / Till we are stouter; / What they renounced, / Till we are less afraid; / How many times they bore / The faithful witness, / Till we are helped, / As if a kingdom cared!
Read then of faith / That shone above the fagot; / Clear strains of hymn / The river could not drown; / Brave names of men / And celestial women, / Passed out of record / Into renown!