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WHEN YOU'RE WALKING IN THE SHADOW by DOUGLAS MALLOCH

First Line: I HAVE HAD A LITTLE SORROW
Last Line: "THEN YOU KNOW YOU'RE NEAR THE SUN!"
I have had a little sorrow,
And have added to the store --
For the troubles that we borrow
Make the load a little more --
I have had my darkened minute,
I have had my weary day,
With no warmth of Summer in it,
And a shadow on the way;
But my memory has brought me
Then a lesson that I know
That my dear old daddy taught me
In the days of long ago:
On the mountain, in the meadow,
He would always say to one,
"When you're walking in the shadow,
Then you know you're near the sun."

Now and then across the highway
Falls the shadow of a hill;
There are brambles in a byway,
There are boulders in a rill.
Now and then to ev'ry mortal
Comes a morn without a lark;
Heaven seems to close its portal,
As we stumble through the dark;
But if shadows seem to lengthen
And if darkness seems to fall,
Daddy had a thought to strengthen
That should help us, after all:
On the mountain, in the meadow,
He would always say to one,
"When you're walking in the shadow
Then you know you're near the sun!"



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