Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="PERFECT_PEACE" id="PERFECT_PEACE"></SPAN>Perfect Peace</h2> <p><i>Because He Trusteth in Thee</i>&mdash;<span class="smcap">Isaiah</span>.</p> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">I</span>N an hour when all was anguish, when loss and death were near,<br/></span> <span class="i2">I sought the Christ and cried aloud for aid,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Through the heavy mist of sorrow, His voice came, sweet and clear<br/></span> <span class="i2">Take the promise, let thy mind on Me be stayed.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i6"><i>For</i> ye shall have perfect peace,<br/></span> <span class="i8">And the grieving shall depart,<br/></span> <span class="i6">And the striving and the bitterness shall cease,<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_187" id="page_187"></SPAN>{187}</span><br/></span> <span class="i8">Then laid the wounded hand of Him<br/></span> <span class="i6">Upon my breaking heart,<br/></span> <span class="i8">Lo, ’twas mine, the priceless gift of Perfect Peace.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Come let us weigh the tenderness Christ hath for you and me,<br/></span> <span class="i2">By the promises He ready stands to prove,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Let us try to comprehend it, the gift so full and free,<br/></span> <span class="i2">O the height and depth, and length and breadth, of Love!<br/></span> <span class="i0">He is so patient with us as He guides our stubborn feet&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">So patient though we wander far astray,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Lean on the Everlasting Strength, He saith in accents sweet,<br/></span> <span class="i2">As we falter and we stumble by the way.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i6">For ye shall have perfect peace,<br/></span> <span class="i8">And the grieving shall depart,<br/></span> <span class="i6">And the striving and the bitterness shall cease,<br/></span> <span class="i8">Then laid the wounded hand of Him<br/></span> <span class="i6">Upon my breaking heart,<br/></span> <span class="i8">Lo, ’twas mine, the priceless gift of Perfect Peace.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_188" id="page_188"></SPAN>{188}</span><br/></span> <span class="i0">Blessed Christ, if we could bring Thee the years so swiftly gone,<br/></span> <span class="i2">O the wasted hours! the swiftly coming night!<br/></span> <span class="i0">The finding in the twilight what we might have found at dawn&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Thee&mdash;the source of strength, and joy, and all delight!<br/></span> <span class="i0">I can thank Thee now for taking what I held dear away,<br/></span> <span class="i2">For my mind on Thee, and Thee alone, is stayed,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Thou wilt give back my treasures in the coming golden day,<br/></span> <span class="i2">I will trust Thee and I will not be afraid.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i6">For I shall have perfect peace,<br/></span> <span class="i8">And the grieving shall depart,<br/></span> <span class="i6">And the striving and the bitterness shall cease,<br/></span> <span class="i8">Then laid the wounded hand of Him<br/></span> <span class="i6">Upon my breaking heart,<br/></span> <span class="i8">Lo, ’twas mine the priceless gift of Perfect Peace.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_189" id="page_189"></SPAN>{189}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />