We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.
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Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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This much is certain, that Jesus Christ represents God as the fountain of all goodness, the eternal enemy of pain and evil, the uniform and unchanging motive of the salutary operations of the material world.