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Read & copy the quotation
“But God gives patience, Love learns strength, And Faith remembers promise, And Hope itself can smile at length On other hopes gone from us.”
- Date
- c. 1850
Meaning of “But God gives patience, Love learns strength, And…”
The elegy moves from a family’s acute loss toward a specifically Christian vocabulary of patience, strengthened love, remembered promise and slowly returning hope.
Where does it come from?
“A Child’s Grave at Florence,” stanza XXII; Project Gutenberg #31015. The poem commemorates a child who died in 1849 and frames consolation through Christian faith.
