The Womb

 Up from the evil day
Of wattle and of woad,
Along man's weary way
Dark Pain has been the goad.

Back from the age of stone,
Within his brutish brain,
What pleasure he has known
 Is ease from Pain.


Behold in Pain the force
That haled Man from the Pit,
And set him such a course
No mind can measure it.

To angel from the ape
No human pang was vain
In that divine escape
 To joy through Pain.


See Pain with stoic eyes
And patient fortitude,
A blessing in disguise,
An instrument of good.

Aye, though with hearts forlorn
We to despair be fain,
Believe that Joy is born
 From Womb of Pain.

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