1. Patience in adversity is courage true,
But overcoming, conquering is courage too.

2. Patience excels as virtue's attitude,
Yet pardon for offenders may subdue.

3. He who would shoulder and bury the dead
Is requited. But he who the living led,

4. More blessed by far is he, of prophets said.
Not for his victories was David's name wed

5. To honour, as for pardoning Saul instead.
He who reigns his own soul, it's frequently read,