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I would have gone; God bade me stay: / I would have worked; God bade me rest. / He broke my will from day to day, / He read my yearnings unexpressed, / And said them nay.
Now I would stay; God bids me go: / Now I would rest; God bids me work. / He breaks my heart tossed to and fro, / My soul is wrung with doubts that lurk / And vex it so.
I go, Lord, where Thou sendest me; / Day after day I plod and moil: / But, Christ my God, when will it be / That I may let alone my toil / And rest with Thee?