Others will teach the lessons of joy.

The whole vast underworld of pity and pain, fear and horror and injustice is your kingdom.

Men have drawn darkness about you as a curtain, shrouded you in blackest night; the light in you will shine the brighter.

Always provided of course that the light is not put out altogether.
Hammer or anvil?
How would Oscar Wilde take punishment?
* * * * * We could not know for months.

Yet he was an artist by nature--that gave one a glimmer of hope.