Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

57. Pain

MEN have made them gods of love,

Sun-gods, givers of the rain,

Deities of hill and grove:

I have made a god of Pain.

Of my god I know this much,

And in singing I repeat,

Though there’s anguish in his touch,

Yet his soul within is sweet.