John Pomfret Quote

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.

Verses to his Friend under Affliction. Compare: " Bless the hand that gave the blow", John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (1681), Act ii. Sc. 1.

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.