Explore "Pain's Purpose" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
How blind is he who prays that God will send / All pain from earth. Pain has its use and place; / Its ministry of holiness and grace. / The darker tones upon the canvas blend / With light and colour; and their shadows lend / The painting half its dignity. Efface / The sombre background, and you lose all trace / Of that perfection which is true art's trend.
Life is an artist seeking to reveal / God's majesty and beauty in each soul. / If from the palette mortal man could steal / The precious pigment, pain, why then the scroll / Would glare with colours meaningless and bright, / Or show an empty canvas, blurred with light.