Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul

by Unknown

Then answered the Lord to the cry of his world:

"Shall I take away pain

And with it the power of the soul to endure,

Made strong by the strain?

Shall I take away pity, that knits heart to heart,

And sacrifice high?

Will ye lose all your heroes that lift from the fire

White brows to the sky?

Shall I take away love, that redeems with a price

And smiles at its loss?