POETRl'. 



VERSES ON PATIENCE, WRITTEN AT THE REf^UEST OF A FRIENB, 

 BY DR BVROM. 



For the Bee. 



A. VERSE on patience? — Yes, — bur then prepare 



Your mind, friend Robert, with i reading iliare, 



Or else 'iwill give yu rather Jefs :h n nice, 



To near it mciitione-'l than you had be/oie : 



If mine to write, reir ember 't^s your ta/k 



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



Patience the theme? — a blefsed inmate this! 

 The nursing p..ie;it of our bosom blifs ; 

 Abro-d for blils (ht bds us i ot to roam, 

 Bi»t cultivate its real fund at home: 

 A. nobie trejsuie! — when the patient soul, 

 Sits in the center and survejs the whole. 



The busrling worM, to fetch her out from thence, 

 A^'ill urge tlj-. various, plausible pretence; 

 Will pruve perfections of a grander name, 

 Snuid great exnljits, .ind call her cut to fame; 

 Aiiuse and flatter, till liie Siiul, too proni 

 To sell-activity, deserts her thiOne. 



Been your guard, — the busV.efs of a man 

 1< to be sure to do wliat g'l^d lie can : 

 Bu' fust at home, let pat'i nee rule within, 

 Whsrs charity you know m..st fivi: brgir, ; 

 Notmonied iove, as fo- dly understood, 

 Sut ".aim sedate propcsity "o good. 



The jcnuine virtue of the mod'st friend, 

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

 The bill ih.s of all the res; b^-si^e, 

 rv>r wtliout patience th. y are ail but pridr ; 

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

 But pnves its wckneis, when it caii::ot biar. 



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

 It ilii,wT us plainly what we would be at: 

 Ot gentois actio s we may couni th( sum, 

 But scave the wo.th, till disappointments come; 

 Men oh are then more ger/rouslv absurd, 

 i'lxir w. n god actions have their o»?n b..d wo.d. 



