Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: I know not if or dark or bright
Topic: The New Life/Trust and Joy
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: T Cook
Meter: 8s and 4s
Tune: Lexington
Hymn Number: 566
Page Number: 205, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI know not if or dark or bright
Shall be my lot;
If that wherein my hopes de-light
Be best, or not.
It may be mine to drag for years
Toil's hea-vy chain;
Or day and night my meat be tears,
On bed of pain.
Dear faces may surround my hearth
With smiles and glee;
Or I may dwell alone, and mirth
Be strange to me.
My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath divine,
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.
One who has known in storms to sail,
I have on board;
Above the raving of the gale
I hear my Lord.
His guiding hand will lead me o'er
Life's darkest way,
To meet him where there's night no more,
But endless day.