Job's Luck

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Title:     Job's Luck
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

Sly Beelzebub took all occasions
To try Job's constancy and patience;
He took his honours, took his health,
He took his children, took his wealth,
His camels, horses, asses, cows--
And the _sly_ Devil did not take his spouse.

But Heaven that brings out good from evil,
And loves to disappoint the Devil,
Had predetermined to restore
_Twofold_ all Job had before,
His children, camels, horses, cows,--
_Short-sighted_ Devil, not to take his _spouse_!

1799.

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Job's Luck

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