“Then welcome each rebuff
That turns earth’s smoothness rough,
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!
Be our joys three parts pain!
Strive to hold cheap the strain;
Learn, nor account the pang: dare, never grudge the throe.”
And again—
“We fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake——”
The intervening period between fall and victory, between loss of innocency and gain of righteousness, is the period with which all human history is concerned: and there is often a corresponding period in the life-history of every fully developed individual, during which he gropes his way through darkness and longs for light.