Have any of you, passers-by, <br />Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort? <br />Or a pain in the side that never quite left you? <br />Or a malignant growth that grew with time? <br />So that even in profoundest slumber <br />There was shadowy consciousness or the phantom of thought <br />Of the tooth, the side, the growth? <br />Even so thwarted love, or defeated ambition, <br />Or a blunder in life which mixed your life <br />Hopelessly to the end, <br />Will like a tooth, or a pain in the side, <br />Float through your dreams in the final sleep <br />Till perfect freedom from the earth-sphere <br />Comes to you as one who wakes <br />Healed and glad in the morning!<br /><br />Edgar Lee Masters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eugenia-todd/
