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WHAT IS THAT TO THEE? FOLLOW THOU ME by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

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First Line: LIE STILL, MY RESTIVE HEART, LIE STILL
Last Line: NONE OTHER, WHICH THOU ORDEREST NOT.
LIE still, my restive heart, lie still:
God's Word to thee saith, 'Wait and bear.'
The good which He appoints is good,
The good which He denies were ill:
Yea, subtle comfort is thy care,
Thy hurt a help not understood.

'Friend, go up higher,' to one: to one,
'Friend, enter thou My joy,' He saith:
To one, 'Be faithful unto death.'
For some a wilderness doth flower,
Or day's work in one hour is done: --
'But thou, couldst thou not watch one hour?'

Lord, I had chosen another lot,
But then I had not chosen well;
Thy choice and only Thine is good:
No different lot, search heaven or hell,
Had blessed me, fully understood;
None other, which Thou orderest not.



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