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Rh  If I had known, nay heart, why should I mourn?
 * Better by far I did not know the pain

Fate had allotted me e’er I was born.
 * And who shall say my life has been in vain?

Life is made up of equal joy and care,
 * The joy I missed hath been another’s share

And every burden added to my load
 * Hath eased some other comrade on the road;

And God knew best, before the griefs now flown
 * My courage would have failed if I had known.