"But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest:"--Explain the lines

3. "But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:"--Explain the lines

OR

Describe the role of Patience. 

OR

How does patience rescue the poet from his conflict of mind?

Answer: These lines occur in John Milton's Sonnet: 19. Here Patients has been personified. Patients has come to solve the foolish doubts of poet if God will demand from the poet the due work or duties that he has not performed when he had eyesight. Actually the poet does not know that God is infinite. Patience consoles the poet saying that our duties, offerings to god are insignificant. Also God does not want his gifts back from us. Like us, God has countless Angels, servants who also run everywhere without rest only to obey the order of God. According to the Patience, the man who bears God's order, is the best servant of God. Here the world 'yoke' is compared to the duties given by the God to us.