Patience Taught by Nature - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[Larry Robinson]

Patience Taught by Nature

‘O dreary life,’ we cry, ‘O dreary life!’ 
And still the generations of the birds 
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds 
Serenely live while we are keeping strife 
With Heaven’s true purpose in us, as a knife 
Against which we may struggle! Ocean girds 
Unslackened the dry land, savannah-swards 
Unweary sweep, hills watch unworn, and rife 
Meek leaves drop yearly from the forest-trees 
To show, above, the unwasted stars that pass 
In their old glory: O thou God of old, 
Grant me some smaller grace than comes to these!  
But so much patience as a blade of grass 
Grows by, contented through the heat and cold.

	- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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