Sentence:  Again , Henley 's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius , whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian , comparable to the <WSD>patience</WSD> expressed in Milton 's sonnet on his own blindness . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence