Lesson

I know now why the world was sad,

With so much good to make it glad ;

Why all things loveliest and best

Have stirred vague sorrows in my breast,

And sweetest days that life has had

Have vexed me with such vast unrest.

I Know why i have pined and toiled,

And found all aspirations foiled;

I Know why i have gained and spent,

And never learned what riches meant;

I know what lack and loss have spoiled

The treasure of my soul’s content.

Like day – dawn on the darkened earth,

Like sun and rain in drought and dearth,

Like spring,that wakens flower so fast

When barren winter – time is past,

Love, long – dererred, has come to birth –

And i am satisfied at last.

My heart is singing ; tears are shed ;

I,that was starved, am warmed, and fed –

For love is fire and food and wine,

All comfort earthly and divine.

Now i am living that was dead,

And all that life can give is mine.