It is something in this darker dream demented <br /> to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain: <br />it is something to have sinned, and have repented: <br /> it is something to have failed, and tried again! <br /> <br />It is something to have loved the brightest Beauty <br /> with no hope of aught but silence for your vow: <br />it is something to have tried to do your duty: <br /> it is something to be trying, trying now! <br /> <br />And, in the silent solemn hours, <br /> when your soul floats down the far faint flood of time -- <br />to think of Earth's lovers who are ours, <br /> of her saviours saving, suffering, sublime: <br /> <br />And that you with THESE may be her lover, <br /> with THESE may save and suffer for her sake -- <br />IT IS JOY TO HAVE LIVED, SO TO DISCOVER <br /> YOU'VE A LIFE YOU CAN GIVE AND SHE CAN TAKE!<br /><br />Francis William Lauderdale Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/something-2/
