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Leave it to God.

Is the way dark my child, leading to light
Is your heart's music a song in the night?
Grieve not, some weary one listens and smiles
Some one who sorrows its sweet air beguiles;
Why should we hope to walk hedged by a song?
Jesus has trod the path, He found it long
We can but follow where Jesus has trod
Leave it to God, my child. Leave it to God.

Daily some hope is slain, daily some cross
Lighter our wings shall grow after each loss,
Less left to hold us, close to the earth
Feel we the mighty throes of a new birth;
Furl we our untried wings, upward we rise
See, in the distance the soul's paradise,
Lie we no longer so close to the sod
Leave it to God, my child leave it to God.

All hearts have Calvary's, all lives a tomb
All have their Easters, dispelling the gloom,
After the long defeat, after the loss
After the weariness, after the cross,