Patience

          I
I waited for the Lord a little space.
So little! in whose sight as yesterday
Passes a thousand years: -- I cried for grace,
Impatient of delay.

          II
He waited for me -- ah so long! For He
Sees in one single day a loss or gain
That bears a fruit through all eternity: --
My soul, did He complain?

~Robert Hugh Benson