O cup of blinding joy and pain!

The taste that none would die without!

The draught that all the world must drain!

WHAT THEN?

Suppose you write your heart out till the world

Sobs with one voice—what then?

Small agonies that round your heart-strings curled

Strung out for choice, that men

May pick a phrase, each for his own pet pain,

And thank the voice so come,