Dealt

From The Birmingham Age Herald, March 27, 1915. By Charles Miller.

Life is a game of whist; from unseen sources
    The cards are shuffled and the hands are dealt.
Blind our efforts to control the forces
    That, though unseen, are no less strongly felt.

I do not like the way the cards are shuffled,
    But still I like the game and want to play.
Thus through the long, long night will I, unruffled,
    Play what I get until the break of day.