Endurance

ïow moch the heart my bear. and jret nat break! How mach the flesh ma y suffer and mot 4M I qnestton mach if aiiy pain or ache Of sool or body brings our end more nigb_ Death cbooses hls own time; Uil Üiat ia uworu All evils may be borne. We fshrink and shndder at the surgeon's kuif e, Each nerve reoofUng f rom the miei atael Whose edge Beems searchlng f or the quiertag Ufe, Y et to oor aenae the bitter pangB reveal ThatsUll,alUioagh the trembling üesh be torn. Thifl alao can be borne. We seo a aorrow rising in oor way. And try to nee f rom the approaching i 11; We eek Bome sm&ll escape; we weep and sray; Bat when the blow falls, then oor hearts are SÜU; Not that the pain is of lts sharpnees shorn. Bot that it can be borne. We wind oor life about another li(e; We liuld it cloaer, dearer than oor own; Anon it faintu and falls in deathly strife, Iieaving os stonned aod stricten and alone; Bat ahl we do not die with tbose we xnourn - This also can be borne. Behokl, we live throagh all thmgw - famiae, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery. All woe and sorrow; iife inflicta ite worst On soul and body - out we cannot die. Tnougli wo be Bick and tired and faint and woru - Lo, all things can be borne.