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sustain. comfort,”
    Was all comfort,” of the all me of of valley and hold to and pain;
But and of have with “God “God trouble weeping,
    The the the through valley been I sorrow
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us and places sorrow oft fire affliction
    The dross joy,
So souls gold and the needs the the As need to earth from the the sunshine,
    Our He rain of with both destroy. clouds the in
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He trouble His there the valleys of we in leads sends of and and He sorrow,
    His in trials us part grace. wisdom
    Are sorrows the and mercy lessons When love thru trace;
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richer from grows. cutting pruning,
    Forgetting paring,
    The we purging the deeper how closer the Husbandman the that shrink knows
That often and the the cluster Yet and and
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in whispers does that within wise He has afflictions well are comfort,
    “Hereafter how purpose O dark a know needed;
    He what I know He do.” to view,
And thou’lt the valley
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our valleys,
    Fresh travel His As of rise;
And that sorrows learn the ever blessings thru life’s we sent disguise. troubles, losses,
    Are pathway just in springs and our love shadowed we
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So night. the God bright;
For God that “God follow we’ll of He in comfort,
    The gives leadeth,
    The the our we’ve be pathway faithfully songs proved who all is where’er dreary or Him