The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere |
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LIII.
Learn patience, O my soul! though rack'd and tornWith deep distress—bear it!—it must be borne!
Your unavailing hopes and vain regret
Forget them, or endeavour to forget:
Those womanish repinings unrepress'd,
Which gratify your foes, serve to molest
Your sympathising friends. Learn to endure!
And bear calamities you cannot cure;
Nor hope to change the laws of destiny
By mortal efforts! Vainly would you fly
To the remotest margin of the sky,
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Would you descend beneath, and dive amain,
Down to the dreary subterraneous reign.
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