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TE DEUM OF RENEWALS by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY

First Line: FOR THY SWEET SUNSHINE AFTER NIGHTS OF RAIN
Last Line: WE THANK THEE, LORD.
Subject(s): HOLIDAYS; RELIGION; THANKSGIVING; THEOLOGY;
For Thy sweet sunshine after nights of rain;
For Thy sweet balm of comfort after pain;
For Thy sweet peace that ends a long-drawn strife;
For Thy sweet rest that ends a burdened life;
For joy, dispersing sorrows as the sun
Sucks up the morning mists, and as Thy winds
Dispel the clouds and show the blue again, --
The deep, pure, tenuous, heavenly blue that seems,
In its infinity of tenderness,
Like to Thy Love, that fills all time and space
With Thy sweet Spirit's all-abounding grace;
For all Thy healing ministries, --
@3We thank Thee, Lord@1.

For hearts estranged, won back to fellowship,
And closer knit by sweet forgivenesses;
For hearts made tenderer by fortune's blows;
For souls by sorrows ripened in Thy love;
Yea, and for pain that took our pride away,
And cast us wholly on Thy charity;
For darkened ways that led us to the Light,
For blinding tears that yet renewed our sight;
For travails and perplexities of mind
Through which we wrestled, nobler life to find, --
And found, beyond our craving souls' upreach,
The wonder of the lessons Thou wouldst teach;
For dear lives salvaged from the hand of Death;
For pure souls' fiery purgings without scathe;
For answered prayers that showed Thy boundless love;
For prayers unanswered, wiser love to prove;
For all Thy leadings through life's devious ways,
With faith illumined and high heart of grace; --
@3We thank Thee, Lord@1.



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