Compensations

LIFE laughs and sighs,
Life gives and takes;
A Pleasure dies,
A memory wakes.

Out of the Night
Arises Morn;
When fades the light
The stars are born.

Life take a part
To make a whole,
And breaks the heart
To save the soul.

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