Percy Bysshe Shelley born 1792.
Edward Irving born 1792.
Walter H. Pater born 1839.
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Yet if we could scorn
Hate and pride and fear,
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever could come near.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley.
It becomes no man to nurse despair,
But in the teeth of clenched antagonisms
To follow up the worthiest till he die.
--Alfred Tennyson.
He suffered no man to do them wrong;
Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes.
--1 Chronicles 16. 21.
My Father, I bless thee for thy patience and forbearance. I pray that
thou wilt forgive me for all the sorrow that I have made from
rebellion and despair, and with thy forgiveness may I receive patience
and cheerful courage. Amen.