Life's Tests

Poem for the Day

Life's Tests
by Edgar Albert Guest

If never a sorrow came to us, 
and never a care we knew; 
If every hope were realized, 
and every dream came true; 
If only joy were found on earth, 
and no one ever sighed, 
And never a friend proved false to us, 
and never a loved one died, 
And never a burden bore us down, 
soul-sick and weary, too, 
We'd yearn for tests to prove our worth 
and tasks for us to do.