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Hymn: All as God wills who wisely heeds (FL)

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

Lyics

All 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.