THE PATIENT CHURCH.
Bide thou thy time! Watch with week eyes the race of pride and crime t Sit in the gate, and be the heathen's jest, Smiling and self-posse**. 0 thou, to whom is pledged a victor's sway, Bide thou the victor* day ! Think on the sin* That reap'd the unripe seed, and toiVd to win Foul history-marks at Bethel and at Dau ; JSo blessing, but a ban ; Whilst the -wise Shepherdf hid his heaten-told fate, Nor reck'd a tyrants hate. Such loss is gnin ; Wait the Wight Advent that shall loose Ihe chaiu! E'en now the shadows break, and gleams divine Edge the dim distant line. When thrones are trembling, and earth's fat one's quail. True seed ! thou shalt prevail!
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 6, 7 June 1873, Page 12
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122THE PATIENT CHURCH. New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 6, 7 June 1873, Page 12
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