If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I
Had willed and meted me the tears I shed.
But not so.How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
- Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan...
These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.
1866.