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"I am distraught, yet verily His ruth abides with me, ✿ Tho' round me gather hosts of ills, whence come I cannot see: Patient I'll be till Patience self with me impatient wax; ✿ Patient for ever till the Lord fulfil my destiny: Patient I'll bide without complaint, a wronged and vanquisht man; ✿ Patient as sunparcht wight that spans the desert's sandy sea: Patient I'll be till Aloe's[254] self unwittingly allow ✿ I'm patient under bitterer things than bitterest aloë: No bitterer things than aloes…