SYMPATHY by Grace Duffield Goodwin

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 37.

SYMPATHY

By Grace Duffield Goodwin

If we should be so quick of heart, So keen of sight, That we could feel each shadow's gloom, Each blossom's blight, The fairest of earth's blue-gold days Would turn to night.

If we should grow so swift to feel Each human pain That for each aching human heart Ours ached again, Life were all weariness, and joy Grown poor and vain.

Some sounds are lost in silence, though We reverent hark; Some sights are shot from anxious eyes By pitying dark; The limit of the soul's out-gift Has finite mark. —Grace Duffield Goodwin.