From Hannah's Pathway Reader...

If All the Skies Were Sunshine

If all the skies were sunshine,

Our faces would be fain

To feel once more upon them

The cooling splash of rain.

If all the world were music,

Our hearts would often long

For one sweet strain of silence

To break the endless song.

If life were always merry,

Our souls would seek relief

And rest from weary laughter

In the quiet arms of grief.

-Henry Van Dyke