Believe your prayer is answered, truly so. For God in wisdom waits to set you free. Perhaps no path can break across your sea Until the stinging east-wind rise and blow. Perhaps for forty years your soul must grow Before you glimpse the fire on bush or tree. Alone within a cave your fate may be That out of silence God's own voice may flow. Be sure that God will answer honest prayer -- Not always as we hoped or planned the way. Have patience then to wait His promised hour. For He who marks the sparrow's fall out there Will hear the child who lifts his heart to pray. When time is ripe He will reveal His power. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BIRDS OF VIETNAM by HAYDEN CARRUTH DAWN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SURFACES AND MASKS; 30 by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901 by EDWIN MARKHAM AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |