740 <br /> <br />You taught me Waiting with Myself— <br />Appointment strictly kept— <br />You taught me fortitude of Fate— <br />This—also—I have learnt— <br /> <br />An Altitude of Death, that could <br />No bitterer debar <br />Than Life—had done—before it— <br />Yet—there is a Science more— <br /> <br />The Heaven you know—to understand <br />That you be not ashamed <br />Of Me—in Christ's bright Audience <br />Upon the further Hand—<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-taught-me-waiting-with-myself/