The Giver + 

To give a thing and take again + 

Is counted meanness among men; + 

To take away what once is given + 

Cannot then be the way of heaven! + 

But human hearts are crumbly stuff, + 

And never, never love enough, + 

Therefore God takes and, with a smile, + 

Puts our best things away a while. + 

Thereon some weep, some rave, some scorn, + 

Some wish they never had been born; + 

Some humble grow at last and still, + 

And then God gives them what they will. + 