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God strengthen me to bear myself; / That heaviest weight of all to bear, / Inalienable weight of care.
All others are outside myself; / I lock my door and bar them out, / The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.
I lock my door upon myself, / And bar them out; but who shall wall / Self from myself, most loathed of all?
If I could once lay down myself, / And start self-purged upon the race / That all must run! Death runs apace.
If I could set aside myself, / And start with lightened heart upon / The road by all men overgone!
God harden me against myself, / This coward with pathetic voice / Who craves for ease and rest and joys:
Myself, arch-traitor to myself; / My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, / My clog whatever road I go.
Yet One there is can curb myself, / Can roll the strangling load from me. / Break off the yoke and set me free.