BE PATIENT.
(By the late Archbishop French.) Be patient ! oh, be patient ! j )U t your car against tlie earth, Xiistcn there how noiselessly the germ o’ the seed lias birth : How noiselessly and gently it upheaves its little way, ■ Till it parts the scarcely broken ground, and the blade,stands up in the: tlay. Be patient 1 oh,, be patient! the germs of mighty thought ■- . Must have their -silent underground be wrought; ' ■ - But as sure as there’s a power that makes •the grass appear, .. V ■: , ’ r Our land shall: ,bc green -with liberty''"the' blade-time shall be here. : Be patient ! oh, be patient! go-and watch the vrheat-ears gjrow;\ So imperceptibly that ye can mark nor change nor throe ; Hay after day, day after day, till the ear is fully grown, And then again, day after day, till the ripened field is brown. Be patient .!■ oh, be patient! though yet our hopes..arc green, The harvest, fields of freedom shall be crowned with siiimy sheen ; ’ Be ripening J. be ripening ! mature your silent, way,, ■’ Till tbc whole broad land is iongued \vith fire on freedom’s harvest day.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 17, 22 July 1893, Page 11
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184BE PATIENT. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 17, 22 July 1893, Page 11
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