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PAIN

From the April 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal


"Exquisite solvent of the gods, and dear,
That goads man's sluggish nature into deeds!
The heart is waste and barren till it bleeds;
Poor, shrinking soul! Hope's fruitful half is—
Fear;

The fire-emboweled Earth, in tost career,
Knows all thy inarticulate needs;
Begets and buries races, nurtures, feeds;
The blood would rot in Pleasure's atmosphere;
Old Chaos' self crept into Beauty's shape
Through feeling, sense, blind Impulse at the
wheel;
To think were devilish, severed from to feel;
Man, reft of heart, were but a chattering ape!
Wine issues only from the trodden grape,
And iron must be blistered into steel!"

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