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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PATIENCE WITH THE LIVING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet friend, when you and I are gone Last Line: Be patient with the living. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. | |||
Sweet friend, when you and I are gone Beyond earth's weary labor, When small shall be our need of grace From comrade or from neighbor, Then hands that would not lift a stone, Where stones were thick to cumber Our steep hill path, will scatter flowers Above our pillowed slumber. Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I, Ere love is past forgiving, Should take the earnest lesson home -- Be patient with the living. Today's repressed rebuke may save Our blinding tears tomorrow. Then patience, e'en when keenest edge May whet a nameless sorrow. 'Tis easy to be gentle when Death's silence shames our clamor, And easy to discern the best Through memory's mystic glamour; But wise it were for thee and me, Ere love is past forgiving, To take the earnest lesson home -- Be patient with the living. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHITTIER by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER OH, FACE TO FACE WITH TROUBLE by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A CLUSTER OF ROSES TO A FRIEND by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A COQUETTE by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A DREAM by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A GARDEN OF SPICES by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A HAPPY NEW YEAR by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A LOST PEARL by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER A MAPLE LEAF by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER |
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