A Light Behind the Cloud

Keep in heart, be ever patient,
There’s a light behind the cloud;
Be not gloomy or discouraged,
Let not mists your soul enshroud.

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Oh, be patient, ever patient,
When life’s cares around you crowd;
Oh, be patient, ever patient:
There’s a light behind the cloud.

You remember Christ had trials
That were many and were sore;
And you may be only passing
O’er the ground He trod before.

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You can rift the cloud with sunshine
If your heart is glad within,
And make brighter paths to travel
If you prayerfully begin.

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All the light of life eternal,
That has shone the ages through,
Still exists, and is but waiting
To illuminate the true.

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Words: Alfred Barratt