<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115582" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If This Be All</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God! if this indeed be all<br>That Life can show to me;<br>If on my aching brow may fall<br>No freshening dew from Thee, -<br>If with no brighter light than this<br>The lamp of hope may glow,<br>And I may only dream of bliss,<br>And wake to weary woe;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If friendship's solace must decay,<br>When other joys are gone,<br>And love must keep so far away,<br>While I go wandering on, -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wandering and toiling without gain,<br>The slave of others' will,<br>With constant care, and frequent pain,<br>Despised, forgotten still;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grieving to look on vice and sin,<br>Yet powerless to quell<br>The silent current from within,<br>The outward torrent's swell:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While all the good I would impart,<br>The feelings I would share,<br>Are driven backward to my heart,<br>And turned to wormwood, there;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If clouds must ever keep from sight<br>The glories of the Sun,<br>And I must suffer Winter's blight,<br>Ere Summer is begun;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If life must be so full of care,<br>Then call me soon to Thee;<br>Or give me strength enough to bear<br>My load of misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Bront%C3%AB">Anne Brontë</a> from <i>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115582" data-title="If This Be All de Anne Brontë" data-description="O God! if this indeed be all/That Life can show to me;/If on my aching brow may fall/No freshening dew from Thee, -/If with no brighter light than this/The lamp of hope may glow,/And I may only dream of bliss,/And wake to weary woe;/If friendship'..."></div> </div> </div>

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