POETRr. 

 VERSES ON PATIENCE, WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIENB. 



BY DK BVROM. 



For the Bee. 



A VERSE on patience? — Yes, — but then prepare 



Y^ur mind, frier.d Robert, with i reading ihjre, 



Or else 'iwill give y-u rather leis :h n mo.e. 



To hc.iric mtiitione-'i than you haJ beibre : 



If mine to write, renrember Ws your tafk 



To read the lines which you are pleas'd to aflc. 



Patience the theme i' — a blefsed Inmate this! 

 The nursing p.ieit of our bosom blifs ; 

 AbrO-d tor blils (he bds us i ot to roam. 

 But cultivate iis real fund at home : 

 A nobie tieasiiie! — when the pitient sou!, 

 Sits in the center aiid surveys the whole. 



The bustling vvor'd, to fetch her out from thence, 

 Will urge tliK various, plausible pretence; 

 Will prove perfections of a grander name, 

 Souid great exr>lji:s. an,l call her cut to fame; 

 Anuse and flatter, till I'le s-ul, too prone 

 To self-activity, deserts her th.o.'ie. 



Be on your guard, — the bus'refs of a man 

 I* U) be sure to do what g'):'d he c_n ; 

 Bu: fust at home, let pati'-noe rule within, 

 Whsr- charity you know m^st ftai begin ; 

 Notmonied love, as foidly understood, 

 But ialm sedate prope-sity to good. 



The Tcnulae virtue of the mnd'St frieTd, 

 Wh ch you oblige me here to r. comm-nd ; 

 The dl.il th.s ot all the res: bi-si^e, 

 For wtiiout patience thvy are all but prid'*; 

 A s.roi-.g ambitiin (hints within i's sphere. 

 But pr)ves its wciknei's, when it cannot bear. 



There ies tiie test, — bring ev'ry thing to that ; 

 It Ihc/W! us pl;.inly what we would be at: 

 Ot gentois actio s we may coun" tht sum. 

 But sca'ce the wo.ch, till disap(:o;ntmenc5 come; 

 Men of: are then more geti'rously absurd, 

 i'l'.tir oi\ n god actions have tli^ir own bad v.o.d. 



