I have lived and I have loved; <br />I have waked and I have slept; <br />I have sung and I have danced; <br />I have smiled and I have wept; <br />I have won and wasted treasure; <br />I have had my fill of pleasure; <br />And all these things were weariness, <br />And some of them were dreariness;-- <br />And all these things, but two things, <br />Were emptiness and pain: <br />And Love--it was the best of them; <br />And Sleep--worth all the rest of them, <br />Worth everything but Love to my spirit and my brain. <br />But still my friend, O Slumber, <br />Till my days complete their number, <br />For Love shall never, never return to me again!<br /><br />Charles Mackay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-have-lived-and-i-have-loved/
