2 Is there no kind, no lenient art,

To heal the anguish of the heart?

Spirit of grace! be ever nigh,

Thy comforts are not made to die.

3 Bid gentle patience smile on pain,

Till dying hope shall live again;

Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye

And faith points upward to the sky.

Anne Steele, 1760

493 China. C.M.