Quote#Pain
Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer most?
Quote bySarah Williams · 1837–1868
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (1868), "Is It So, O Christ in Heaven?", st. 3.
English (original)
Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer most? That the strongest wander farthest, and more hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain? — "I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now."
— Sarah Williams
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