<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384708" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Way Of It</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the way of it, wide world over, <br>One is beloved, and one is the lover, <br> One gives and the other receives.<br>One lavishes all in a wild emotion, <br>One offers a smile for a life’s devotion, <br> One hopes and the other believes, <br>One lies awake in the night to weep, <br>And the other drifts off in a sweet sound sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One soul is aflame with a godlike passion, <br>One plays with love in an idler’s fashion, <br> One speaks and the other hears.<br>One sobs, ‘I love you, ’ and wet eyes to show it, <br>And one laughs lightly, and says, ‘I know it, ’<br> With smiles for the other’s tears.<br>One lives for the other and nothing beside, <br>And the other remembers the world is wide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the way of it, sad earth over, <br>The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover, <br> And the other learns to forget.<br>‘For what is the use in endless sorrow? <br>Though the sun goes down, it will rise tomorrow; <br> And life is not over yet.’<br>Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, <br>That passionate Love is Pain’s own mother.</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=384708" data-title="The Way Of It de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="This is the way of it, wide world over, One is beloved, and one is the lover, One gives and the other receives. One lavishes all in a wild emotion, One offers a smile for a life’s devotion, One hopes and the other believes, One lies awake..."></div> </div> </div>

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