Could I the victory gain.”
Your cause is just, to conquer here,
And all your rights maintain.
“What use,” you ask, “to say I will,
And almost know I shan’t;
I’ve tried, and tried, and tried again,
To quit, but oh! I can’t.”
Well, be it so; your course pursue,
But what will be the end?
Your conscience soon will be so seared,