GAIN THROUGH LOSS

Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes:

I will not doubt, tho sorrows fall like rain,

And troubles swarm like bees about a hive;

I shall believe the heights for which I strive

Are only reached by anguish and by pain;

And tho I groan and tremble with my crosses,

I yet shall see, through my severest losses,

The greater gain. (Text)

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