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In St. Luke's Gospel we are told / How Peter in the days of old / Was sifted; / And now, though ages intervene, / Sin is the same, while time and scene / Are shifted.
Satan desires us, great and small, / As wheat to sift us, and we all / Are tempted; / Not one, however rich or great, / Is by his station or estate / Exempted.