What use to brood? This life of mingled pains
And joys to me,
Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains
The Mystery.


To Mary Boyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


What use to brood? This life of mingled pains And joys to me, Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains The Mystery.

What use to brood? This life of mingled pains And joys to me, Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains The Mystery.

What use to brood? This life of mingled pains And joys to me, Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains The Mystery.

What use to brood? This life of mingled pains And joys to me, Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains The Mystery.