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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_.