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Hymn: I know not if or dark or bright (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: I know not if or dark or bright

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: Gregorian

Meter: 8 4 8 4

Tune: Chant VII

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 322, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I know not if or dark or bright
Shall be my lot;
If that wherein my hopes delight
Be best, or not.


It may be mine to drag for years
Toil's heavy 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.