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O ye, whom, struggling on life’s craggy road, With obstacles and dangers, secret foes Supplant, false friends betray, disastrous rage Of elements, of war, of civil broil Brings down to Poverty’s cold floor, while grief Preys on the heart, and dims the sinking eye; Faint not! There is, who rules the storm, whose hand Feeds the young ravens, nor permits blind chance To close one sparrow’s flagging wing in death. Trust in the rock of ages. Now, even now He speaks, and all is calm. Or if, to prove Your inmost soul, the hurricane still spread Its licensed ravages. He whispers hope, Earnest of comfort; and through blackest night Bids keen-eyed Faith on heaven’s pure sunshine gaze, And learn the glories of her future home.
O ye, whom, struggling on life’s craggy road, With obstacles and dangers, secret foes Supplant, false friends betray, disastrous rage Of elements, of war, of civil broil Brings down to Poverty’s cold floor, while grief Preys on the heart, and dims the sinking eye; Faint not! There is, who rules the storm, whose hand Feeds the young ravens, nor permits blind chance To close one sparrow’s flagging wing in death. Trust in the rock of ages. Now, even now He speaks, and all is calm. Or if, to prove Your inmost soul, the hurricane still spread Its licensed ravages. He whispers hope, Earnest of comfort; and through blackest night Bids keen-eyed Faith on heaven’s pure sunshine gaze, And learn the glories of her future home.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 210 · printed citation: Gisborne · subject: FAITH
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