Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. Disease is metrical, closing in at shorter and shorter periods towards death, sweeping abroad at longer and longer intervals towards recovery. Sorrow for one cause was intolerable yesterday, and will be intolerable tomorrow; today it is easy to bear, but the cause has not passed. Even the burden of a spiritual distress unsolved is bound to leave the heart to a temporary peace.
Alice Meynell, 1847-1922, English poet and essayist wrote much on religious subjects. Though she is most famous for her poetry, Alice Meynell believed that her strength lies in her prose. Her essay “The Rhythm of Life” published in 1893 brings readers to a thought that “If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical…”