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A bending staff I would not break, A feeble faith I would not shake, Nor even rashly pluck away The error which some truth may stay, Whose loss might leave the soul without A shield against the shafts of doubt.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Faith, Loss, Errors
John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.157
A bending staff I would not break, A feeble faith I would not shake, Nor even rashly pluck away The error which some truth may stay, Whose loss might leave the soul without A shield against the shafts of doubt.