Before After

[CONSOLATION.] IV. 142 LIFE, — does it disappoint thee? Grieve not, nor be angry thou! In days of sorrow gentle be: Come shall, believe, the joyful day. In the future lives the heart: Is the present sad indeed? ’T is but a moment, all will pass; Once in the past, it shall be dear. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, 1825 English translation by Ivan Nikolayevich Panin

Edvard Munch, Consolation, 1894. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.