Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other,
In blackness of heart? — that we war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.

Joaquin Miller (1837-1913) American poet [pen name of Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller]

“Is it Worthwhile?” st. 1 (1866)
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