Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
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:
Meter: PM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 803
Page Number: 469, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI 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.