With earnest faith thine agonizing cry,
And ask for patience. Patience is a gift
Of rare attainment. Disappointments try—
Severely try our frail humanity,
And chafe the delicate framework of the mind,
Unless ’tis steel’d by patience. O, may I
Be sweetly to my Father’s will resign’d,
And thus ’mid all my woes, I still may comfort find.
XXVI.
How many cares do press the soul to earth,