Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity
of the Cyber Hymnal Website
Words: William Cullen Bryant, in Beard's Collection, 1837.
Music: "St. Barbara," Peter Christian Lutkin (1858-1931) |
Deem not that they are blest alone
Whose days a peaceful tenor keep;
Th'anointed Son of God makes known
A blessing for the eyes that weep.
The light of smiles shall fill again
The lids that overflow with tears;
And weary hours of woe and pain
Are promises of happier years.
There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night;
And grief shall bide an evening guest,
But joy shall come with early light.
Nor let the good man's trust depart,
Though life its common gifts deny,
Though with a pierced and broken heart,
And spurned of men, he goes to die.
For God has marked each sorrowing day,
And numbered every secret tear;
And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all His children suffer here.
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