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They sank amid the wilderness, The weary and forsaken; She gave the boy one faint caress, And prayed it might not waken. Far, far away the desert spread; Ah! love is fain to cherish The vainest hopes, but now she said, “Let me not see him perish.” Then spoke the Lord, and at his word Sprang forth a little fountain, Pure, cold as those whose crystal hoard Is in some pine-clad mountain. O blessed God! thus doth thy power, When, worn and broken-hearted, We sink beneath some evil hour, And deem all hope departed. Then doth the fountain of thy grace Rise up within the spirit, And we are strengthened for that race, Whose prize we shall inherit. When least we hope, our prayer is heard, The judgment is averted, And comes the comfort of thy word, When most we seem deserted.
They sank amid the wilderness, The weary and forsaken; She gave the boy one faint caress, And prayed it might not waken. Far, far away the desert spread; Ah! love is fain to cherish The vainest hopes, but now she said, “Let me not see him perish.” Then spoke the Lord, and at his word Sprang forth a little fountain, Pure, cold as those whose crystal hoard Is in some pine-clad mountain. O blessed God! thus doth thy power, When, worn and broken-hearted, We sink beneath some evil hour, And deem all hope departed. Then doth the fountain of thy grace Rise up within the spirit, And we are strengthened for that race, Whose prize we shall inherit. When least we hope, our prayer is heard, The judgment is averted, And comes the comfort of thy word, When most we seem deserted.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Miss Landon (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 134 · printed citation: Miss Landon · subject: COMFORT
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