 | Poems Chiefly Lyric and Elegiac |  |
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POST TENEBRAS.
We go, we know not whither;
We came, we know not whence:
But He who brought us hither
Will surely guide us hence.
We came, we know not whence:
But He who brought us hither
Will surely guide us hence.
He will, for He has said it:
Himself has bid us come—
Has told us not to dread it,
The road that makes for Home;
Himself has bid us come—
Has told us not to dread it,
The road that makes for Home;
The road that leads through sorrow
And suffering and pain
To that unthought-of morrow
When we all shall meet again.
And suffering and pain
To that unthought-of morrow
When we all shall meet again.
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He will, for He has sent us
A Man to show the way;
One whom He always meant us
To follow and obey;
A Man to show the way;
One whom He always meant us
To follow and obey;
One who walk'd alone before us
In the ways that we have trod;
And who still is watching o'er us—
For His other name is God.
In the ways that we have trod;
And who still is watching o'er us—
For His other name is God.
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