Thick is the darkness - <br />Sunward, O, sunward! <br />Rough is the highway - <br />Onward, still onward! <br /> <br />Dawn harbours surely <br />East of the shadows. <br />Facing us somewhere <br />Spread the sweet meadows. <br /> <br />Upward and forward! <br />Time will restore us: <br />Light is above us, <br />Rest is before us.<br /><br />William Ernest Henley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thick-is-the-darkness/