GOD KNOWTH BEST.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 465, 23 April 1890, Page 8

GOD KNOWTH BEST.

Seme time when nil life’s lessons, have been learned, V , And sun and stars forevermore have set, •The things which- ourhVeak judgements here have spurned— _• ’■ .•, • The things o’er whieht/we grieved with- ' lasr.es wet—- ' flash before us out of life’s dark .night, As stars.shj[ne}most:in deeperdims of blue: And shiij: see bow all God's plans were ' u rtit, 1 - .. . And how what; seemed reproof .was ‘love . • most true. ¥ " . .... .. . i And we =ball s ? ee hpw, while wo frown and sigh, ' ' ; God’s plans go on best for .you and me ; ••How, when we cafled lie heeded not our cry, •Because Bis wisdom to the end could see. And even as‘prudent parents disalloiW Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, So God perhaps, is keeping from us now Life’s sweetest things because it see-rue'.li good. 1,1 ■ ' c '' And if gometiipep. commingled with lifefs wine We find the womiwood, and rebel and shrink Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine . Pours out this potion for opr lips to drink. And ifisome friend we love ie lying low, Whej-p hupigp kissps cannot reach his face,' 0, do not blame his loving father so, But wear your sorrow with obedient grace ! And you shall shortly kno.w that lepgthened breath Is not the sweetest gift God pends his • friends,' : ’• And that, sometimes, the sable pall of death Conceals the fairest boom,His love can send, If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within, and gll Gods working sre, ” ‘ We coul' l interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not to-day. Then be content poor heart V God’s plans, like lillies, pure and white, unfold, " i We must not tear the close shut leaves apart; Time will reveal the calyxes of gold, And if though patient toil we reach the land hero tired feet with sandals loose mav rest, When we shall clearly know and understand I tbjnk that we will’ say, 'God knew the best !■■•••-