All’s for the best! be sanguine and cheerful,
Trouble and Sorrow are friends in disguise,
Nothing but Folly goes faithless and fearful,
Courage for ever is happy and wise:
All for the best,– if a man would but know it
Providence wishes us all to be blest;
This is no dream of the pundit or poet,
Heaven is gracious, and — All’s for the best!
All for the best! set this on your standard,
Soldier of sadness, or pilgrim of love,
Who to the shores of Despair may have wander’d
A way-wearied swallow, or heart-stricken dove:
All for the best!– be a man but confiding
Providence tenderly governs the rest,
And the frail bark of His creature is guiding
Wisely and warily all for the best.
All for the best! then fling away terrors,
Meet all your fears and your foes in the van,
And in the midst of your dangers or errors
Trust like a child, while you strive like a man:
All’s for the best! — unbiassed, unbounded,
Providence reigns from the East to the West;
And, by both wisdom and mercy surrounded,
Hope and be happy that All’s for the best!
(Martin Farquhar Tupper)
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