WHAT IF SOME LITTLE PAIN THE PASSAGE HAVE

... What if some little paine the passage have,

That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter wave?

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,

And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave?

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,

Ease after warre, death after live does greatly please....

Edmund Spenser