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Perseverance still is king; Time its sure reward will bring; Work and wait unwearying,—

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“Perseverance still is king; Time its sure reward will bring; Work and wait unwearying,—”

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Dunbar closes the poem by making patient continued effort its central refrain, pairing work with the willingness to wait through difficulty.

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“Keep A-Pluggin’ Away,” represented by Wikisource’s Complete Poems transcription. The poem repeatedly urges persistence through steep paths, storms, ridicule and pain; its period motivational voice is literary encouragement, not a guarantee that effort always produces a desired outcome.

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