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JOY IS BUT SORROW, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For fair thou art as moonrise after rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Joy; Grief; Pain


Joy is but sorrow,
While we know
It ends to-morrow: ''"
Even so I
Joy with lifted veil
Shows a face as pale
As the fair changing moon so fair and frail.
Pain is but pleasure,
If we know
It heaps up treasure: ''"
Even so!
Turn, transfigured Pain,
Sweetheart, turn again.
For fair thou art as moonrise after rain.





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