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LOOK BEYOND! by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY

First Line: UNNUMBERED SORROWS, WOES BEYOND BELIEF
Last Line: "LOOK BEYOND!"
Subject(s): RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

Unnumbered sorrows, woes beyond belief,
A world aflame with hate and gray with grief, --
@3"Look Beyond!"@1

This little life so short -- a span at best,
And that short span a torment of unrest, --
@3"Look Beyond!"@1

So many gone, -- our bravest and our best, --
The Golden Fields of Youth laid bare and waste, --
@3"Look Beyond!"@1

Wrong fills the world with foul iniquity,
@3"God's grace is more than man's obliquity,@1 --
@3Look Beyond!"@1

What can Life give to recompense such loss?
@3"Christ's path of sorrow led Him to the cross,@1 --
@3Look Beyond!"@1

Before these horrors Hope and Love are dumb.
@3"Hold to your Faith! God's best is still to come,@1 --
@3Look Beyond!"@1



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