What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.
Who knows but the world may end tonight
What joy is better than the news of friends?
Silence 'tis awe decrees.
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.