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RECOMPENSE
Straight through my heart this fact today,
By Truth's own hand is driven:
God never takes one thing away,
But something else is given.
By Truth's own hand is driven:
God never takes one thing away,
But something else is given.
I did not know in earlier years,
This law of love and kindness;
I only mourned through bitter tears
My loss, in sorrow's blindness.
This law of love and kindness;
I only mourned through bitter tears
My loss, in sorrow's blindness.
But, ever following each regret
O'er some departed treasure,
My sad repining heart was met
With unexpected pleasure.
O'er some departed treasure,
My sad repining heart was met
With unexpected pleasure.
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I thought it only happened so;
But Time this truth has taught me—
No least thing from my life can go,
But something else is brought me.
But Time this truth has taught me—
No least thing from my life can go,
But something else is brought me.
It is the Law, complete, sublime;
And now, with Faith unshaken,
In patience I but bide my time
When any joy is taken.
And now, with Faith unshaken,
In patience I but bide my time
When any joy is taken.
No matter if the crushing blow
May for the moment down me,
Still, back of it waits Love, I know,
With some new gift to crown me.
May for the moment down me,
Still, back of it waits Love, I know,
With some new gift to crown me.
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