What trials may life lay on those who’ve loved
And languished in the summer of their years?
Love’s joy uplifted by a radiant sun
Soon falls to earth amid a flood of tears.
Fond hopes—once burning beacons for glad hearts,
Now faintly glowing in sad memory,
Fade like the dying of ten thousand stars
As dawning drowns them in an astral sea.
Thus through this interchange of joy and grief
Do human hearts and souls assume their state
And join the flux of universe complete—
Amidst the cold indifference of fate.
As golden sunshine brings tomorrow’s rain,
So joyful smiles may be tomorrow’s pain.

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