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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339746" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cui Bono</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should we care for storms that rave and rend,<br>Safe at our household hearth?<br>Unknowing whence we came, or where we wend,<br>Why should we ache and toil, and waste and spend,<br>Treading from no beginning to no end,<br>An uncrowned martyr's path?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while to suffer, when we might,<br>Like happier men, be blest<br>With that dull blindness that desires no light,<br>That peaceful soul that feels no need to fight,<br>Nor thirsts for liberty, and truth, and right,<br>But lives its life at rest?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while to work, and strive, and learn —<br>To sow where none may reap?<br>Is it worth while to rage, and fret, and yearn<br>For nameless treasure that we cannot earn?<br>Is it worth while in fever- fires to burn,<br>While wise men eat and sleep?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while to care for praise or blame,<br>This little time we live,<br>When purest deeds are oftenest put to shame?<br>To pant for noble strife and lofty fame,<br>When gold seems better than a stainless name,<br>Or all the world can give?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">5.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while for friendship's gift to sue,<br>For friendship's joys to crave?<br>When sordid tests, that bring us ruth and rue,<br>And sorrowful years, alone discern the clue<br>That tells us what is false and what is true,<br>And what we lose or save?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">6.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To open wide our sanctuary door<br>Some welcome guest to greet,<br>To find, perchance, when we have shown our store,<br>The sacred places rudely trampled o'er,<br>Bereaved, profaned, and soiled for evermore<br>With tread of vulgar feet?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while to love — though love find grace<br>In our belovèd's sight?<br>To bear a restless heart from place to place,<br>Hungry for sight of one transcendent face,<br>That shines our central sun in azure space,<br>Or leaves our world in night:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, after all, to gain no more than this<br>At such a life- long cost —<br>A taste, a glimpse, the memory of a kiss,<br>A speechless sense of what diviner bliss,<br>That might have been, we have contrived to miss —<br>To know what love has lost?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">9.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while — O sadder fate! — to heed<br>The solemn chime that knells<br>The death hour of an immemorial creed —<br>A staff of strength become a broken reed —<br>And never friendlier help in time of need,<br>Nor surer guide, foretells?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">10.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To heed the spirit- voice that bids us take<br>A strange new road alone;<br>From gentle slumber and sweet dreams to wake,<br>And hear the mighty billows boom and break —<br>The thunder of immortal seas that shake<br>The earth's foundation- stone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">11.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while, so far away as we,<br>To long, in hope and dread,<br>For the great unborn Age that is to be —<br>To pine for light that we shall never see —<br>To care what course man's life and destiny<br>May take when we are dead?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while to toil in doubt and fear,<br>Through thorny ways like these,<br>When they who turn blind eye and heedless ear<br>To change and portent, and who see nor hear<br>The pregnant storm that gathers far and near,<br>Dwell all their days at ease?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">13.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To leave the Good whereof we are possest,<br>To search, in gloom and grief,<br>Through pathless trouble, for some unknown Best,<br>And see no goal, and find no place of rest —<br>Is it worth while, on such a fruitless quest<br>To waste a life so brief?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">14.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it worth while to wear out heart and brain?<br>Ah me, what must be must!<br>The maddening Mystery cannot be made plain,<br>And they who seek to solve it seek in vain,<br>Yet can but seek, in sleepless hope and pain,<br>Till heart and brain are dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ada+Cambridge">Ada Cambridge</a><div class=q>
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Why should we care for storms that rave and rend,
Safe at our household hearth?
Unknowing whence we came, or where we wend,
Why should we ache and toil, and waste and spend,
Treading from no beginning to no end,
An uncrowned martyr's path?

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