“There is a destiny in this strange world,
“Which oft decrees an undeserved doom.
“Let schoolmen tell us why.”
HOME.
ERE now I’ve wish’d that I had never been;
But that is wrong, a crime, (which heaven forgive,)
To murmur at those ills which man’s great Lord
Decreed that he should suffer while on earth,
To try his faith, his patience, and his love;
To fit him for those joys, for him prepared
In realms of peace, beyond the reach of woe;
Where neither envy, slander vile, nor hate,
Or mark’d hypocrisy shall enter in.
At times I’m apt to think hard is the fate;
Of those, no husbands have to cheer their state,
And ward the blow that’s threaten’d at their fame;
Or sympathizing friend at hand, into
Whose bosom they may pour without restraint,
The sad effusions of their woe-fraught hearts,
When calumny’s dread fang o’erwhelms their minds
With sorrows plaint, and likewise dire dismay.
Oh may I be enabled to sustain,
What I could not foresee or yet prevent;
In meek submission to His will supreme
Who knows my frame, and will support the load,
Which in his providence I’m doom’d to bear.
(Margaretta Wedderburn)
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