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I bring joy, but also sorrow, all my children must know grief. / Buoyant spring, then on the morrow Autumn's dried and falling leaf. / Success I bring and golden laughter; Man I help to high estate. / Disappointments follow after -- this my way with small or great. Work / I give as well as pleasure; sunshine -- then the clouds and rain! No / one can escape a measure of my bitterness and pain. Cause for / singing, cause for weeping, rough and smooth and dark and bright. / Time for work and hours for sleeping, calm and noise and day and / night. Lovely gardens, barren places, stumbling-blocks and paths of / ease; bread and honey, rags and laces, these I offer where I please. / Joy I bring and also sorrow, light and shade and hills and vales and / this gift for each new morrow -- courage to the one who fails.