Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
O HEART so full of cares and fears,
So heavy with the weight of years,
So fretted, too, with unshed tears; So void of hope, so much distressed,
So restless, yet so craving rest,
So seeking peace, yet so oppressed, Lay down thy burden; cease thy strife;
Remember Him whose blameless life
With many a bitter woe was rife. Each untold pang which rends thy breast;
Each anxious throb, though unexpressed;
Each yearning cry for promised rest; Each care, too small for mortal sight;
Each unrecorded daily slight;
Each burden, whether grave or light,— All, all are known to him whose might
Can turn the darkness into light,
Whose love can cheer earth’s dreariest night.