Grief
Shakespeare says: “I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.” This is especially true regarding grief or affliction. “Man was born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward,” but we bid other people bear their sorrows manfully; we should therefore bear ours with equal courage.
Upon this trouble shall I whet my life
As ’twere a dulling knife;
Bade I my friend be brave?
I shall still braver be.
No man shall say of me,
“Others he saved, himself he cannot save.”
But swift and fair
As the Primeval word that smote the night—
“Let there be light!”
Courage shall leap from me, a gallant sword
To rout the enemy and all his horde,
Cleaving a kingly pathway through despair.
Angela Morgan.
From “Forward, March!”