<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384551" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Recompense</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Straight through my heart this fact to-day, <br> By Truth’s own hand is driven: <br>God never takes one thing away, <br> But something else is given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not know in earlier years, <br> This law of love and kindness; <br>I only mourned through bitter tears<br> My loss, in sorrow’s blindness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, ever following each regret<br> O’er some departed treasure, <br>My sad repining heart was met<br> With unexpected pleasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought is only happened so; <br> But time this truth taught me –<br>No least thing from my life can go, <br> But something else is brought to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is the Law, complete, sublime; <br> And now, with Faith unshaken, <br>In patience I but bide my time<br> When any joy is taken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No matter if the crushing blow<br> May for the moment down me, <br>Still, back of it waits Love, I know<br> With some new gift to crown me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><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=384551" data-title="Recompense de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Straight through my heart this fact to-day, By Truth’s own hand is driven: God never takes one thing away, But something else is given. I did not know in earlier years, This law of love and kindness; I only mourned through bitter tears ..."></div> </div> </div>

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