Faith.
O, by and by the sun will shine again—
Will throw glad light on hill, and field, and plain;
The earth will smile ’neath Plenty’s joyous reign,
And we shall know that “God remembers the world.”
Aye, by and by the clouds will roll away
And then a greater boon, a golden day
Will seem, because we’ve known a gloomy May
When Doubt, o’er brooding, shadowed all our world.
Let Hope’s bright sunshine gladden every hour,
E’en tho’ the skies with angry tempests lower;
Believe, beyond, above, a higher Power
Doth watch and guard, with loving, care the world.
Shrink not nor e’er, with dread, thy part delay;
With faith and courage meet each coming day—
Let duties well performed pave all thy way,
Thus make a royal pathway thro’ the world.
Tho’ sorrows should be thick along thy path,
Remember none are sent to thee in wrath;
Love fires the bolt that makes the lightning scath—
A law that gives a brighter, better world.
With frowning face Calamity may come,
Ay, strike a hemisphere with terror dumb,
But let no boding fear thy faith benumb,
For He who made, in wisdom rules the world.
Tho’ skies and seas their floods together roll—
Tho’ earth should pass, a shriveled scroll,
His care is over each immortal soul—
He’ll gather us to His eternal world.