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Stand still my soul in the silent dark	A
I would question thee	B
Alone in the shadow drear and stark	A
With God and me	B
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What my soul was thy errand here	C
Was it mirth or ease	D
Or heaping up dust from year to year	E
'Nay none of these '	-
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Speak soul aright in His holy sight	F
Whose eye looks still	G
And steadily on thee through the night	F
'To do His will '	-
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What hast thou done O soul of mine	H
That thou tremblest so	I
Hast thou wrought His task and kept the line	H
He bade thee go	I
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Aha thou tremblest well I see	B
Thou 'rt craven grown	J
Is it so hard with God and me	B
To stand alone	J
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Summon thy sunshine bravery back	K
O wretched sprite	F
Let me hear thy voice through this deep and black	K
Abysmal night	F
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What hast thou wrought for Right and Truth	L
For God and Man	M
From the golden hours of bright eyed youth	L
To life's mid span	M
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What silent all art sad of cheer	E
Art fearful now	N
When God seemed far and men were near	E
How brave wert thou	N
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Ah soul of mine thy tones I hear	C
But weak and low	I
Like far sad murmurs on my ear	C
They come and go	I
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I have wrestled stoutly with the Wrong	O
And borne the Right	F
From beneath the footfall of the throng	O
To life and light	F
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'Wherever Freedom shivered a chain	P
God speed quoth I	Q
To Error amidst her shouting train	P
I gave the lie '	-
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Ah soul of mine ah soul of mine	H
Thy deeds are well	R
Were they wrought for Truth's sake or for thine	H
My soul pray tell	R
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'Of all the work my hand hath wrought	S
Beneath the sky	Q
Save a place in kindly human thought	S
No gain have I '	-
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Go to go to for thy very self	T
Thy deeds were done	U
Thou for fame the miser for pelf	T
Your end is one	U
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And where art thou going soul of mine	H
Canst see the end	V
And whither this troubled life of thine	H
Evermore doth tend	V
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What daunts thee now what shakes thee so	I
My sad soul say	W
'I see a cloud like a curtain low	I
Hang o'er my way	W
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'Whither I go I cannot tell	R
That cloud hangs black	K
High as the heaven and deep as hell	R
Across my track	K
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'I see its shadow coldly enwrap	X
The souls before	Y
Sadly they enter it step by step	X
To return no more	Y
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'They shrink they shudder dear God they kneel	Z
To Thee in prayer	A2
They shut their eyes on the cloud but feel	Z
That it still is there	A2
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'In vain they turn from the dread Before	Y
To the Known and Gone	B2
For while gazing behind them evermore	Y
Their feet glide on	C2
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'Yet at times I see upon sweet pale faces	D2
A light begin	E2
To tremble as if from holy places	D2
And shrines within	E2
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'And at times methinks their cold lips move	T
With hymn and prayer	A2
As if somewhat of awe but more of love	T
And hope were there	A2
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'I call on the souls who have left the light	F
To reveal their lot	F2
I bend mine ear to that wall of night	F
And they answer not	F2
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'But I hear around me sighs of pain	P
And the cry of fear	E
And a sound like the slow sad dropping of rain	P
Each drop a tear	A2
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'Ah the cloud is dark and day by day	W
I am moving thither	A2
I must pass beneath it on my way	W
God pity me whither '	-
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Ah soul of mine so brave and wise	G2
In the life storm loud	H2
Fronting so calmly all human eyes	G2
In the sunlit crowd	H2
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Now standing apart with God and me	B
Thou art weakness all	I2
Gazing vainly after the things to be	B
Through Death's dread wall	I2
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But never for this never for this	J2
Was thy being lent	K2
For the craven's fear is but selfishness	L2
Like his merriment	K2
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Folly and Fear are sisters twain	P
One closing her eyes	G2
The other peopling the dark inane	P
With spectral lies	G2
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Know well my soul God's hand controls	M2
Whate'er thou fearest	K2
Round Him in calmest music rolls	M2
Whate'er thou Nearest	K2
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What to thee is shadow to Him is day	K2
And the end He knoweth	N
And not on a blind and aimless way	K2
The spirit goeth	N
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Man sees no future a phantom show	I
Is alone before him	N2
Past Time is dead and the grasses grow	I
And flowers bloom o'er him	N2
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Nothing before nothing behind	K2
The steps of Faith	N
Fall on the seeming void and find	K2
The rock beneath	N
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The Present the Present is all thou hast	K2
For thy sure possessing	O2
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast	K2
Till it gives its blessing	O2
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Why fear the night why shrink from Death	N
That phantom wan	C2
There is nothing in heaven or earth beneath	N
Save God and man	M
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Peopling the shadows we turn from Him	N2
And from one another	A2
All is spectral and vague and dim	N2
Save God and our brother	A2
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Like warp and woof all destinies	D
Are woven fast	K2
Linked in sympathy like the keys	D
Of an organ vast	K2
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Pluck one thread and the web ye mar	A2
Break but one	U
Of a thousand keys and the paining jar	A2
Through all will run	U
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O restless spirit wherefore strain	P
Beyond thy sphere	A2
Heaven and hell with their joy and pain	P
Are now and here	A2
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Back to thyself is measured well	R
All thou hast given	U
Thy neighbor's wrong is thy present hell	R
His bliss thy heaven	U
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And in life in death in dark and light	K2
All are in God's care	A2
Sound the black abyss pierce the deep of night	K2
And He is there	A2
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All which is real now remaineth	N
And fadeth never	A2
The hand which upholds it now sustaineth	N
The soul forever	A2
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Leaning on Him make with reverent meekness	D
His own thy will	G
And with strength from Him shall thy utter weakness	D
Life's task fulfil	G
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And that cloud itself which now before thee	N
Lies dark in view	T
Shall with beams of light from the inner glory	N
Be stricken through	T
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And like meadow mist through autumn's dawn	B2
Uprolling thin	E2
Its thickest folds when about thee drawn	B2
Let sunlight in	E2
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Then of what is to be and of what is done	U
Why queriest thou	N
The past and the time to be are one	U
And both are now	N