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O heart of mine, we shouldn't / Worry so! / What we've missed of calm we couldn't / Have, you know! / What we've met of stormy pain, / And of sorrow's driving rain, / We can better meet again, / If it blow!
We have erred in that dark hour / We have known, / When our tears fell with the shower, / All alone! -- / Were not shine and shadow blent / As the gracious Master meant? -- / Let us temper our content / With His own.
For, we know, not every morrow / Can be sad; / So, forgetting all the sorrow / We have had, / Let us fold away our fears, / And put by our foolish tears, / And through all the coming years / Just be glad.