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Once in a time of trouble and of care / I dreamed I talked with God about my pain; / With sleepland courage, daring to complain / Of what I deemed ungracious and unfair. / ‘Lord, I have grovelled on my knees in prayer / Hour after hour,' I cried; ‘yet all in vain; / No hand leads up to heights I would attain, / No path is shown me out of my despair.'
Then answered God: ‘Three things I gave to thee- / Clear brain, brave will, and strength of mind and heart, / All implements divine, to shape the way. / Why shift the burden of thy toil on Me? / Till to the utmost he has done his part / With all his might, let no man _dare_ to pray. '