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YOU taught me waiting with myselfAppointment strictly kept,You taught me fortitude of fate,This also I have learnt.
An altitude of Death that couldNo bitterer debarThan Life had done before it,Yet—there is a science more—The Heaven you know to understand,That you be not ashamedOf me, in Christ's bright audienceUpon the further hand.