“We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.”

— John Pomfret

Verses to his Friend under Affliction. Compare: " Bless the hand that gave the blow", John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (1681), Act ii. Sc. 1.

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English poet 1667–1702

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