Example Of Patience

O ye, whose hearts in secret bleed O'er transient hope, like morning dew, O'er friendship faithless in your need, Or love to all its vows untrue, Who shrink from persecution's rod, Or slander's fang, or treachery's tone, Look meekly to the Son of God, And in His griefs forget your own. Forsaken are ye ? - so was He; Reviled ? - yet check the 'vengeful word; Rejected ? - should the servant be Exalted o'er his suffering Lord? Nor deem that Heaven's omniscient eye Is e'er regardless...