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First Line: Our way had been to smooth her upward / road
Last Line: God's way is best, and praise our god to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology


OUR way had been to smooth her upward road,
Easing the pressure of each heavy load,

Never to let her white hand know a soil,
Never her heart to feel the weight of toil,

Could we have shielded her from every care,
Kept her forever young and blithe and fair,

And from her body warded every pain,
As from her spirit all distress and strain,

This had been joy of joys, our chosen way.
God led her by a different path; each day

Sorrow and work and anxious care He gave,
And strife and anguish, till her soul grew brave.

Through weary nights she leaned upon His love,
Through cloudy days she fixed her gaze above.

Her dearest vanished, but in faith and trust
She knew them safe beyond the perished dust.

Refined by suffering, like a little child
She grew; into her Father's face she smiled.

And then, one day of days, an angel came;
In flute-notes sweet she heard him breathe her name.

Perhaps from out the rifted heaven she saw
Her mother's face look forth; in raptured awe

We caught the last swift glory in her eyes,
Ere, sleeping here, she woke in Paradise.

God's way was best, with reverent lips we say,
God's way is best, and praise our God to-day.





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