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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER ALL SUFFERING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After all suffering, after all weariness and denial
Last Line: I pass all doors, and am where I would be.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness


AFTER all suffering, after all weariness and denial—
The heart almost stopped, food ceasing to nourish, grief making the tongue
dry,
All pleasure in life ceasing, unable to rouse interest in any object or
pursuit,
But love—and that gone far away!
After all,
Nearer to thy heart, O humanity,
By this of suffering we come.

I know that thou canst not deny me:
I know that each pain is a door by which I approach one degree nearer to
thee.
What sorrow is there but I have shared it?
What grief but it has removed an obstruction between me and some one else?
Look in my face and see. You cannot bar me now.
I pass all doors, and am where I would be.





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