Jeremiah x. 6.
IN the dark winter of affliction’s hour,
When summer friends and pleasures haste away,
And the wrecked heart perceives how frail each power,
It made a refuge, and believed a stay;
When man all wild and weak is seen to be
There’s none like thee, O Lord, there’s none like thee!
When the world’s sorrow working only death,
And the world’s comfort caustic to the wound,
Make the wrung spirit loathe life’s daily breath,
As jarring music from a harp untuned;
While yet it dare not from the discord flee,
There’s none like thee, O Lord! there’s none like thee!
When the tossed mind surveys its hidden world,
And feels in every faculty a foe,
United but in strife; waves urged and hurled
By passion and by conscience, winds of woe,
Till the whole being is a storm-swept sea
There’s none like thee, O Lord! there’s none like thee!
Thou, in adversity, canst be a sun;
Thou hast a healing balm, a sheltering tower,
The peace, the truth, the life, the love of ONE,
Nor wound, nor grief, nor storm, can overpower;
Gifts of a king; gifts, frequent and yet free,
There’s none like thee, O Lord! none, none like thee!
(Mary Jane Jewsbury)
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