It is something in this darker dream demented
to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain:
it is something to have sinned, and have repented:
it is something to have failed, and tried again!
It is something to have loved the brightest Beauty
with no hope of aught but silence for your vow:
it is something to have tried to do your duty:
it is something to be trying, trying now!
And, in the silent solemn hours,
when your soul floats down the far faint flood of time —
to think of Earth’s lovers who are ours,
of her saviours saving, suffering, sublime:
And that you with THESE may be her lover,
with THESE may save and suffer for her sake —
IT IS JOY TO HAVE LIVED, SO TO DISCOVER
YOU’VE A LIFE YOU CAN GIVE AND SHE CAN TAKE!
Francis W L Adams
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