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O! you who never bend the knee, / And never lift the heart, / How do you live from year to year, / And living, act your part.
How do you rise up in the morn, / And pass the whole day through, / Without the Saviour at your side / To guide and strengthen you.
How do you meet the daily ills / That try the temper so! / That fret the heart and wear the soul / More than some master woe.
How do you close your eyes and sleep, / And how your crosses bear; / (Each has a cross, or small, or large) / Without the aid of prayer?
How do you meet the mighty griefs, / That rush upon the soul, / Engulfing it in bitterness. / As angry waters roll?
How do you live _at all_, is one / Deep mystery to me. / Oh, you who never lift the heart / And never bend the knee.