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Show GOD KNOWS BEST. (May Riley Smith.) Sometimes, when all life's lessons have been learned. And sun and stars forevermore have set. The things which our weak judgments here have spurned. The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet. Will flash before us out of life's dark night As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue. And we shail see how all God's plans are right, And how what seem'd reproof was love most true. And we shall see how, while we frown and sigh, God's plans go on as, best, for you and me; How, when we called, Pie heeded not our cry Because yis wisdom to the end could see. And, e'en as prudent parents disallow Too much of sweets to craving baby- So God. perchance, is keeping from us now Life's sweetest things because it seem-eth seem-eth good. And if sometimes, commingled with life's wine. We rind the wormwood, and rebel and shrink. Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine Pours out the potion for our lips to drink. And if some friend, we love is lying low Where human kisses cannot reach his face. Oh, do not blame the loving Father so, . But wear your sorrow with obedient grace, And you shall shortly know that lengthened length-ened breath Is not the fairest gift God sends His friends, And that sometimes the sable pall of dath Conceals the fairest boon His love can end. If we could push apart the gates of life And stand within and all God's workings work-ings see. We could interpret all this doubt and strife And for each mystery we could find " a key. But not today. Then be content, poor heart, God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold. un-fold. We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart. Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. And if, through patient toil, we reach the land Where tired feet, with sandals loosed, may rest, . When we shall clearly know and understand, under-stand, I think that we shall say, "God knows the best." |