Can Life be a Blessing by John Henry Dryden
b"Dryden read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nCan Life be a Blessing \\nby John Henry Dryden (1631 \\u2013 1700)\\n\\nCan life be a blessing, \\nOr worth the possessing,\\nCan life be a blessing if love were away?\\nAh no! though our love all night keep us waking,\\nAnd though he torment us with cares all the day,\\nYet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking,\\nThere's an hour at the last, there's an hour to repay.\\n\\nIn ev'ry possessing,\\nThe ravishing blessing,\\nIn ev'ry possessing the fruit of our pain,\\nPoor lovers forget long ages of anguish,\\nWhate'er they have suffer'd and done to obtain;\\n'Tis a pleasure, a pleasure to sigh and to languish,\\nWhen we hope, when we hope to be happy again."