Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: All as God wills who wisely heeds
Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance
Writer: <no first name given> Whittier
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 904
Page Number: 536, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAll as God wills! who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold,
And knoweth more of all my needs
Than all my prayers have told.
Enough that blessings undeserved
Have marked my erring track--
That whereso'er my feet have swerved,
His chastening turned me back,--
That more and more a Providence,
Of love is understood,
Making the springs of time and sense
Sweet with eternal good,--
That death seems but a covered way
Which opens into light,
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Father's sight,--
That care and trial seem at last,
Through memory's sunset air,
Like mountain ranges overpast,
In purple distance fair,--
That all the jarring notes of life
Seem blending in a psalm,
And all the angles of its strife
Slow rounding into calm.
And so the shadows fall apart,
And so the west winds play;
And all the windows of my heart
I open to the day.