Poems (Angier)/Hope's Song of Patience
HOPE'S SONG OF PATIENCE.
A beautiful answer was given by a little Scotch girl, when her class at school was examined: she replied to the question, What is patience?—"Wait a wee and dinna weary."
Wait a wee, and dinna weary— 'Tis a tender, sweet refrain,When the way seems dark and dreary; Sing it o'er and o'er again: A balm doth Patience bring for pain—Then wait a wee, and dinna weary.
Dinna weary, wait a wee—A brighter day will shine for thee,E'en now its rosy dawn I see.Hope bids me whisper this to thee—Then dinna weary, wait a wee,O! dinna weary, wait a wee.