Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_BURDEN" id="THE_BURDEN"></SPAN>THE BURDEN</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The burden that I bear would be no less</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Should I cry out against it; though I fill</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The weary day with sound of my distress,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">It were my burden still.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The burden that I bear may be no more</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">For all I bear it silently and stay</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sometimes to laugh and listen at a door</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Where joy keeps holiday.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">I ask no more save only this may be&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">On life's long road, where many comrades fare,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">One shall not guess, though he keep step with me,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The burden that I bear.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />