I know that this was Life,—the track Whereon with equal feet we fared; And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the back.
But this it was that made me move As light as carrier-birds in air; I loved the weight I had to bear, Because it needed help of Love:
Nor could I weary, heart or limb, When mighty Love would cleave in twain The lading of a single pain, And part it, giving half to him.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., Canto XXV