Let me lean hard upon the Eternal Breast; <br />In all earth's devious ways, I sought for rest <br />And found it not. I will be strong, said I, <br />And lean upon myself. I will not cry <br />And importune all heaven with my complaint, <br />But not my strength fails, and I fall, I faint: <br />Let me lean hard. <br /> <br /> <br />Let me lean hard upon the unfailing Arm. <br />I said I will walk on, I fear no harm, <br />The spark divine within my soul will show <br />The upward pathway where my feet should go, <br />But now the heights to which I msot aspire <br />Are lost in clouds. I stumble and I tire; <br />Let me lean hard. <br /> <br /> <br />Let me lean harder yet. That swerveless force <br />Which speeds the solar systems on their course <br />Can take, unfelt, the burden of my woe, <br />Which bears me to the dust and hurts me so; <br />I thought my strength enough for any fate, <br />But lo! I sink beneath my sorrow's weight: <br />Let me lean hard.<br /><br />Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/let-me-lean-hard/
