Patience Why this fierce struggle to achieve thine ends ? This selfish argument ? This fire which lends Heat to resentment, ashes to remorse? Canst thou bend Truth and Nature to thy will ? Bend thou, and work and wait; be strong and still ; Soft growth is stronger than vehement force. Be as a flower, content to be, to grow In sweetness day by day; content to know The hidden blessing in the seeming curse ; A child of Love, unargumentative; Content to be and know — as thou dost live— The simple secret of the Universe.
