Katharine Lee Bates - When It Befortunes Us lyrics

When it befortunes us, who love so dearly, To hurt each other, let us haste to wring This joy from our remorseful pa**ioning,-- The wound is witness that we love sincerely. So slight a weapon, word or silence merely, Would scarce effect surprisal of a sting, Were't not my word, thy silence, for we cling One soul together. Life allots austerely Unto the rose of love the thorny power To tear the heart, but ah, love's anodyne! The prick but proves the presence of the flower, Our one white rose from gardens all divine. Then, only then, could grief outlast her hour Were I ungrieved by least rebuff of thine.