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Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, / Let no soul ask to be free from pain, / For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, / And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
Through want of a thing does its worth redouble, / Through hunger's pangs does the feast content, / And only the heart that has harbored trouble, / Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
Let no man shrink from the bitter tonics / Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife, / For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonies, / Are found in the minor strains of life.