Keep me from bitterness. Its so easy to nurse sharp bitter thoughts each dull dark hour. Against self-pity, Man of Sorrows, defend me, with thy deep sweetness and thy gentle power. And out of all this heart of pain and heartbreak. Help me to harvest a new sympathy for sufferning human kind, a wiser pitty for those who lift a heavier cross with thee.
-Violet Alleyn Storey
