Poems from Eastern Sources: The Steadfast Prince; and Other Poems

by Richard Chenevix Trench

And far unhappier than are we therein?

XLVI.

“Your curses cannot harm them, but can make

Of your own hearts a hell instead of heaven;

Its healing virtue from affliction take,

And mar all gracious ends for which ’twas given.

With mortal men ye gloriously have striven;

An harder task remains you—to oppose

Revenge, and scorn, and hate, far deadlier foes.”