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When adverse winds and waves arise, And in my heart despondence sighs,— While life her throng of care reveals, And weakness o’er my spirit steals,— Grateful I hear the kind decree, That “as my day, my strength shall be.” When, with sad footstep, memory roves ’Mid smitten joys, and buried loves,— When sleep my tearful pillow flies, And dewy morning drinks my sighs,— Still to Thy promise, Lord, I flee, That “as my day, my strength shall be.” One trial more must yet be past, One pang,—the keenest and the last; And when, with brow convulsed and pale, My feeble quivering heart-strings fail, Redeemer, grant my soul to see That “as her day, her strength shall be.”
When adverse winds and waves arise, And in my heart despondence sighs,— While life her throng of care reveals, And weakness o’er my spirit steals,— Grateful I hear the kind decree, That “as my day, my strength shall be.” When, with sad footstep, memory roves ’Mid smitten joys, and buried loves,— When sleep my tearful pillow flies, And dewy morning drinks my sighs,— Still to Thy promise, Lord, I flee, That “as my day, my strength shall be.” One trial more must yet be past, One pang,—the keenest and the last; And when, with brow convulsed and pale, My feeble quivering heart-strings fail, Redeemer, grant my soul to see That “as her day, her strength shall be.”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Sigourney (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 575 · printed citation: Mrs. Sigourney · subject: STRENGTH
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