Kissing The Rod

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O heart of mine, we shouldn't
  Worry so!
  What we've missed of calm we couldn't
  Have, you know!
  What we've met of stormy pain,
  And of sorrow's driving rain,
  We can better meet again,
  If it blow!

  We have erred in that dark hour
  We have known,
  When our tears fell with the shower,
  All alone!--
  Were not shine and shadow blent
  As the gracious Master meant?--
  Let us temper our content
  With His own.

  For, we know, not every morrow
  Can be sad;
  So, forgetting all the sorrow
  We have had,
  Let us fold away our fears,
  And put by our foolish tears,
  And through all the coming years
  Just be glad.

© James Whitcomb Riley