Would it be loss or gain <br />To hapless human-kind <br />If we could feel no pain <br />Of body or of mind? <br />Would it be for our good <br />If we were calloused so, <br />And God in mercy should <br />End all our woe? <br /> <br />I wonder and I doubt: <br />It is my bright belief <br />We should be poor without <br />The gift of grief. <br />For suffering may be <br />A blessing, not a bane, <br />And though we sorrow we <br />Should praise for Pain. <br /> <br />Aye, it's my brave belief <br />That grateful we should be, <br />Since in the heart of grief <br />Is love and sympathy, <br />We do not weep in vain, <br />So let us kiss the rod, <br />And see in purging Pain <br />The Grace of God.<br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/divine-device/
