PLEASURE AND PAIN.
Who can determine the frontier of pleasure ? Who can distinguish the limit of pain ? When is the moment the feeling to measure ? When is experience repeated again ? Ye who have felt the delirium of passion Say, can you sever its joys and its pangs ? Is there a power in calm contemplation To indicate each upon each as it hangs ? I would believe not; for spirit will languish, While sense is most blest and creation most bright, And life will be dearer and clearer in anguish, Than ever was felt in the throbs of delight. Sco the Fakeer as he swings on his iron, See the thin hermit that starves in the wild ; Think ye no pleasures the penance environ, And hope the sole blit.3 by which pain is beguiled ? No! in the kingdom these spirits are reaching Vain ore our words the emotions to tell; Vain the distinctions our senses are teaching, For Pain has its Heaven, and Pleasure its Hell!"
Lord Houghton.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2122, 13 February 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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166PLEASURE AND PAIN. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2122, 13 February 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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